DADDY
by Loup Durand; Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn
Villard; 374 pages; $18.95
Occupied France, 1942. A righteous Christian banker is helping Jews to conceal their savings from the Nazis. Detained by the Gestapo, he commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money and the boy.
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