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The Serpent Sleeping (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Serpent Sleeping (Paperback, New Ed)
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Lifted from the channeled spy category by its superimposition of
ethics and humanity, this pits young, newly arrived American
counterespionage Johnny Phillips against a Captain bucking for
promotion in proving young Therese Bouliard to be a German
hireling. In his first interrogation Phillips is persuaded of
Therese's innocence and her desire to protect her dead - and
patriotically derelict - father; Captain Weiller demands further
investigation and rigs the evidence to achieve his necessary aims.
Phillips, cued to duplicity, lies and protestations of
non-collaboration, is slowly destroyed by Therese's amplifications
of her original story. He continues to hold to the hope that she is
the girl in whom he believes; but - with her final - and despairing
admission-is hardened into the operative that Weiller had hoped to
get. Cherbourg in 1944 and the demands of military security are a
constant that holds this on its course when argument, philosophy,
suspicion and concepts divert it. (Kirkus Reviews)
In the late summer of 1944 France is liberated, and the hunt for
Nazi collaborators begins. The young American officer, Johnny
Phillips finds his moral outlook severely tested by the pressures
of spy hunting, and Therese Bouilard finds herself accused of
spying for the Germans.
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