DESPERATE MOMENT

by Martha Albrand ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 12, 1951

An adept author, whose preoccupation with faithful love has won her an assured feminine audience, tells a story of two young French lovers, parted by the war and united through the girl's efforts to find the boy. Anne has learned that Sim, now passing as a Pole, was framed for a murder to which he confessed, has tracked him down and given him hope that freedom, however, hardly won and sustained, will give him the chance to prove his innocence. But on the trail and with the criss-cross of findings and obstacles, Sim turns from a hunt for witnesses for the killing of an American to a cold pursuit of revenge as his attempts to find, and get evidence from, his four prison camp companions, shows him how the years after the war have perverted their loyalty and their integrity. Robert Sawyer, an American in OMOUS, loves Anne too, does not believe Sim's honesty, and tries to balk her when she tries to help Sim in finding Paul, Valentin, Red and Anton. Escape from detection killings en route, land the triangle in Germany and Sim's recognition of his former comrades makes possible unsuspected honors for Sawyer in rounding up secret Russian cooperation. Intense, European, smooth- but not distinguished.

Pub Date: March 12, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1951

Categories: FICTION