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David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American Catholic priest, Monsignor Kevin Deane, seems equally committed to aiding Italian Jews. Soon, Warburg discovers one of history's great scandals - the Vatican ratline, a clandestine escape route maintained by Church officials and providing scores of Nazi war criminals with secret passage to Argentina. Warburg's disillusionment is complete when, turning to American intelligence officials, he learns that the dark secret is not so secret, and that even those he trusts may betray him.

©2014 James Carroll (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC Espionage Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction Italy War Rome Middle East Holocaust

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"James Carroll has written a novel with the breathtaking pace of a thriller and the gravitas of a genuine moral center - as if John LeCarre and Graham Greene collaborated to produce Warburg in Rome." - Mary Gordon, author of Pearl and The Love of My Youth
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James Carroll is an author to watch out for. I have listened to two novels and a very informative history of the CIA. All of them were very enjoyable. James Carroll read 2 of them himself very well and David Doersch is excellent, I will betray listen to more by the author and by the reader.

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