![]() By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history.Ī noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the warhonest, strong, capable of moral choice. City of Secrets Paperback Date: Apb&n / amazon / indiebound / bam / iBooks / powell’s From master storyteller Stewart O’Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel.Ĭity of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. ![]() Stanley also writes a highly-praised series set in Roman Britain, the latest of which is THE CURSE-MAKER. CITY OF GHOSTS was nominated for the Bruce Alexander Award, and CITY OF SHARKS will be released on March 20, 2018. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. CITY OF SECRETS, her second novel in the series, won the Golden Nugget Award for best mystery set in California.
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