Kirkus Reviews QR Code   by Dan Fesperman  Pub Date: Aug. 7th,
2009 ISBN: 978-0-307-26837-2 Publisher: Knopf  Thriller veteran
Fesperman (The Amateur Spy, 2008, etc.) sets his protagonist to
track the lives of six people caught up in World War II through
a dangerous present-day archive.  The author finds new life in
old clues (invisible ink, a book holding a pressed rose) as he
constructs an intricate plot. Nat Turnbull, a professor of
modern German history, learns that Pennsylvania police stormed
into the home of his mentor, Gordon Wolfe, and removed files
containing the records of intelligence work Wolfe did concerning
German resistance efforts during World War II. Waiting in the
shadows of the library where Turnbull works stands an FBI agent
who wants him to examine the files, which reputedly contain
explosive secrets about the war. Turnbull discovers that four
folders—the most important ones, of course—are missing.
Conveniently enough, Berta Heinkel of Berlin’s Free University
appears, offering to help Tu