![]() |
Turncoat"For everybody else in America it was the day JFK was killed in Dallas. For me it would always be the day Lily's father turned up on our doorstep."So begins TURNCOAT. Until then, Pete Simon's all-American life had been everything he ever wished for: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change. And it begins with the appearance of a disheveled stranger at his door, an unwelcome visitor madly ranting in French about money, death, forgiveness ... and what he did or didn't do during the terrible days of the Nazi Occupation. "One of the many joys of reading Elkins comes from sorting through his myriad plot layers. In his latest . . . Elkins masterfully weaves both back-story about his characters' lives and WWII history into a highly suspenseful plot. Elkins is best known for his fine series starring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, but he also excels at WWII-era thrillers. An outstanding novel."- Booklist (Starred Review) |