Sally Lowe Bücher

Dies ist die Geschichte des kühnsten deutschen Kommandounternehmens im Zweiten Weltkrieg: der versuchten Entführung Churchills. Die perfekte Planung und der irrwitzige Ablauf, vor allem aber die meisterhafte Mischung aus authentischer Zeitgeschichte und dramatischer Darstellung reißen den Leser mit wie kein anderes Buch seiner Art.

This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...