The second son

Jonathan Rabb

earliest edition we have, 2011 Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011 304 pages

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 d...

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The Second Son paperback · 2012 · St Martins Press-3pl · 336 pages · 9781250002389
Second Son edition · 2011 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 304 pages · 9781429994118
The second son edition · 2011 · Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 294 pages · 9780374299132
Second Son edition · 2011 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 9781905559312
Second Son edition · 2011 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited · 304 pages · 9781905559220

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