The runner / Christoper Reich.
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TextLanguage: English Series: London : 2000©2000 Description: 533 pages ; 18 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0747266247 (paperback)Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction | War criminals -- Germany -- Fiction | Fugitives from justice -- Fiction | Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- FictionLOC classification: PS3568.E476284 R86 2000Summary: July 1945. For Germany the war is over. But in POW Camp 8 on the outskirts of Garmisch, one man refuses to believe his duty to the Fatherland is finished. Erich Seyss, once one of Germany's greatest Olympic sprinters, now awaits trial for war crimes commited as a fanatical officer in Hitler's SS. But he has no intention of facing his accusers. Instead, he is determined to run one last race for Germany. Given only seven days to track Seyss down, Devlin Judge, a lawyer with the International Military Tribunal Set up to try Nazi war criminals, faces an almost impossible task. Not only must he outwit an elite killer trained to operate behinf enemy lines, but he must also fathom the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key. A conspiracy that could change the face of Europe forever.
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July 1945. For Germany the war is over. But in POW Camp 8 on the outskirts of Garmisch, one man refuses to believe his duty to the Fatherland is finished. Erich Seyss, once one of Germany's greatest Olympic sprinters, now awaits trial for war crimes commited as a fanatical officer in Hitler's SS. But he has no intention of facing his accusers. Instead, he is determined to run one last race for Germany. Given only seven days to track Seyss down, Devlin Judge, a lawyer with the International Military Tribunal Set up to try Nazi war criminals, faces an almost impossible task. Not only must he outwit an elite killer trained to operate behinf enemy lines, but he must also fathom the extraordinary conspiracy to which Seyss is the key. A conspiracy that could change the face of Europe forever.