Working in the army's back offices in occupied Paris, Roth, a young German soldier, is transferred to Gestapo headquarters to work as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance
fighters because of his ability to speak fluent French, but when he falls in love with Chantal, the beautiful daughter of an antiquarian bookshop owner, he suddenly finds himself on the
opposite side of his Nazi colleagues. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.