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On the home front, two wartime lovers reunite under a cloud of paranoia in this thriller from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald
In 1937 Munich, an American must be careful when he smokes his pipe. Robert Branch, a careless academic, makes the mistake of lighting up when the Führer is going to start a procession, and almost gets pummeled for his mistake. Only the timely intervention of Ruth Esch, a flame-haired actress, saves him. So commences a month-long romance between East and West—a torrid affair that ends when the lovers make the error of defending a Jew, earning Branch a beating and Esch a trip to a concentration camp.
Six years later, Esch escapes to Vichy and makes her way to Detroit. To her surprise, Branch is looking forward to her. He's a professor, doing work for the war effort, and his paranoia in regards to a spy inside the Motor City war board sours their reunion. Once more, an unhealthy net is encircling these lovers—a reminder that, in this war, love always comes second to death.
