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An edition of The last man (1995)

The last man

1st ed.
  • 2 Want to read

The author of the critically acclaimed "The Son of John Devlin" renders a gripping, relentlessly plotted novel about the Holocaust, mistaken identity, and power of family secrets.

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
308

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Cover of: The Last Man
The Last Man
2010, Random House Publishing Group
E-book in English
Cover of: The last man
The last man
2001, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The last man
The last man
2001, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The Last Man
The Last Man
January 3, 1995, Ballantine Books
Paperback in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.E435 L37 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24753168M
Internet Archive
lastman00kenn
ISBN 10
0449005887
ISBN 13
9780449005880
LCCN
00048578
OCLC/WorldCat
45100095

First Sentence

"When Gerta Wahljak glanced across the waiting room and saw Friedrich Schillinghaussen she felt a sudden pressure in her chest, a ferocious pressure that made her feel as though she had been stricken with another heart attack."

Work Description

For decades Gerta Wahljak has been haunted by a photograph of ten Nazi officers taken in the concentration camp where she was imprisoned during the Holocaust. Since emigrating to the United States, she has carefully traced and recorded the fates of nine of these men. But there is one whom she has been unable to track--until now. While Gerta waits in her Boston cardiologist's office, she sees another patient who she is almost sure is the last man. She will not be at peace until she knows.After interviewing Gerta, assistant U.S. Attorney David Keegan is shocked to learn that he is closely linked to the man he's investigating. For the man accused of being a former Nazi is none other than Frederick Schiller, married to a renowned Jewish activist and the father of the woman Keegan loves.Poised to become U.S. attorney, Keegan suddenly finds his life maliciously uprooted. Someone envious of his rise to power will stop at nothing to ruin him . . . leaking the volatile story to the press and hoping Keegan's reputation is blackened in the firestorm.David Keegan is a man also haunted by the past, obsessed by his quest to uncover the facts behind his mother's death when he was a child. But as he pursues the truth about his mother, he must deal with the explosive case of Frederick Schiller. As newspaper headlines hurl accusations about Schiller and his wife, the two are forced to relive a dark history that was meant to be buried forever. Now Keegan must decide whether to risk his career to help the parents of the woman he loves.A gripping, relentlessly plotted story about the ambiguity of morality, the power of an unresolved past, and the necessity of forgiveness, The Last Man twists like a thriller, but has the truth-seeking depth of great fiction. Profound in theme and peopled with characters that possess a refreshing vitality, it is a novel that will breathlessly race you to its stunning, climactic finish.From the Hardcover edition.

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