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Sydney Van Damm loves living among foreigners: having escaped Germany and his boyhood memories of World War II, he makes a life as a translator in Paris. There he meets Angela, an American expatriate who becomes his wife. Their marriage is brushed by tragedy, and in the turbulent... Read Full Overview

The author of Jack Gance presents a superb new novel of American opportunists in the Eastern Europe of today. As the Cold War order is dissolving in Europe, translator Sydney van Damm runs into an old friend--an unscrupulous operator who sees special opportunities in demoralized... Read Full Overview