Detour

Name: Detour
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ISBN: 9781616952112

ISBN-10: 1616952113

ISBN-13: 9781616952112

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andromeda Romano-Lax

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Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich'sSonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to Gestapo custody. It is a simple, three-day job.Things start to go wrong almost immediately. The Italian twin brothers who have been hired to escort Vogler to the border seem to have priorities besides the task at hand—wild romances, perhaps even criminal jobs on the side—and Vogler quickly loses control of the assignment. The twins set off on a…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.24" wide x 8.03" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Andromeda Ramona-Lax was born in Chicago in 1970. Her first novel, The Spanish Bow, was translated into eleven languages and was chosen as a New York Times Editors' Choice, BookSense pick, and one of Library Journal's Best Books of the Year. Ramona-Lax is also the author of the novel The Detour and her nonfiction works include a dozen travel and natural history guidebooks.