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This story, set in the present day, with action that takes place in London, Paris and Berlin, combines monumental suspense and hair-trigger danger and has real motivation, real emotion and fiercely held codes of morality driving the actions of every carefully rendered character.

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1 author picked The Day After Tomorrow as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is one of my all-time thrillers. It’s a cautionary tale that reminds us that not all of the Nazis were caught after the war and their need for power would never disappear.

The story follows Dr. Paul Osborne, who has been haunted from the day he was ten years old and watched a stranger kill his father. Now, years later, in Paris, he sees the same man. This starts the frantic race through Europe to find out why his father was killed and who ordered it done, while killers and the police dodge his every move, Osborne doesn’t know…

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