The Statement: A Novel (Digital Original)

By: Brian Moore

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Synopsis: The hunt is on for an elusive Nazi war criminal in this &“absorbing intellectual thriller that keeps you guessing . . . until the final page&” (The New York Times). For four decades Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he&’s tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his days are numbered, he realizes only one man can help him get away with murder: Commissaire Vionnet, a retired police chief who, forty years earlier, allowed Brossard to escape. But two other men are collaborating as well: a hired assassin known only as T, and Cardinal Primate Delavigne, reformist of the postwar church. He&’s as unstoppable as T, as ruthless as Brossard, and he can&’t wait to play this game to its unpredictable end. &“An exciting, classic novel of hunter and hunted&” inspired by a true story, The Statement was made into an award-winning film starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, and Alan Bates (The Washington Post).