In Another Country and Besides: A Novel

By: Maxwell Jacobs

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Synopsis: Romance and revenge collide in this &“uniquely exciting . . . moving and beautiful&” novel of expats in post-war Europe (Valerie Hemingway). Harry Hoffman is an expatriate living in Venice. During a time of moral bankruptcy, disillusion, and unrealized love, Harry is a lost soul still running from a sinister past. Then he meets the enigmatic Cleo, who offers him the pleasures of an exquisite and unexpected affair. It&’s all a chance for Harry to start over. When this newfound happiness is threatened and their affair is strained by jealousy, Harry can&’t help but fall back on what he knows best: vengeance. It takes him from Zurich and the Swiss Alps, to the Cote d&’Azur and finally, irresistibly, back to Paris, the city from which he&’d once fled. A novel of cruelty and passion, loyalty and courage, and the tragic death of an ideal, In Another Country, and Besides is &“a tenderly absurd, heart-breaking . . . [and] truly gripping story&” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch).