Willem Frederik Hermans, Ina Rilke (TRN) Darkroom of Damocles

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A classic pitch-black wartime thriller from the author of An Untouched House'I immerse myself in the book, intimidated at first by its length, astonished afterwards to find I have read it at a single sitting... The suspense never falters' Milan KunderaUnder Nazi occupation, Henri Osewoudt finds himself drawn into the resistance by his near-doppelganger, the ruthless Dorbeck, Soon Osewoudt has entered a world that is a photo negative of his previous humdrum existence - carrying messages, helping British agents to escape and killing collaborators. But how much of it is real?The Darkroom of Damocles is a razor-sharp classic thriller set in a world where everything is permitted, even murder. As unsettling and morally challenging today as when it was first written.