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The ghosts of Rome

"The Escape Line's collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning. Meanwhile, SS Commander Paul Hauptmann has been tas...

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Main Author: O'Connor, Joseph, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2025.
Series:O'Connor, Joseph, 1963- Rome escape line trilogy ; 2.
Subjects:
O'Flaherty, Hugh, > 1898-1963 > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Italy > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Escapes > Italy > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Priests > Ireland > Fiction.
Diplomats > Vatican City > Fiction.
Nazis > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Biographical fiction.
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Summary:"The Escape Line's collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning. Meanwhile, SS Commander Paul Hauptmann has been tasked with destroying the entire operation, and the price of failure is high--his wife and children are under Gestapo lock-and-key in Berlin. Into this deliriously thrilling melee steps Contessa Giovanna Landini, a reckless, audacious, and magnetic member of the Italian Resistance who has the nerve to challenge Hauptmann's authority"--
Physical Description:383 pages : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9798889660620
Author Notes:Joseph O'Connor 's Shadowplay was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award. His novel Star of the Sea was published in thirty-eight languages and won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Littéraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of ten novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. My Father's House , the critically acclaimed first book in his Rome Escape Line Trilogy was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Walter Scott Prize.

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