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The second son

Jonathan Rabb

2011294 pagesabout 4–7 hours
2011
first published
  • 2011Orion Publishing Group, Limited · ENGISBN 9781905559312
  • 2011Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 294 pages · ENGISBN 9780374299132
  • 2011Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781905559220
  • 2011Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9781429994118
  • 2012St Martins Press-3pl · 336 pagesISBN 9781250002389

On the Eve of Hitler's Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is forced out of the Kriminalpolizei because he is a half Jew. Hoffner is not surprised given the rise of Nazism, and anyway his focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, to the Nazi regime. But Georg is not what he appears to be, and when Hoffner discovers this, he is determined to save the one son he can.

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ViolenceFrequent

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ThemesWarFamily

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