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About this Book

    A rare book collector finds a manuscript that might have changed the course of WWI.
    On the evening of November 11th, 1968, antiquarian book collector Francis Altman is giving a talk in honour of the anniversary of the Armistice Treaty. But his lecture takes a dark turn upon the haunting arrival of a classmate from his past. As the two men discuss their lives they realise that they are two sides of the same coin: both born and raised in Germany, but whereas Altman’s role in the war elevated his position, his comrade’s life was destroyed on the faceless, mechanized battlefields.
    This strange encounter leaves Altman in possession of the man’s personal manuscript, his mysterious “life’s work,” whose contents could have changed the course of history...
    Thomas H. Cook’s re-imagined history of the “dangerously spinning maelstrom” of post WWI is a contemplation on man’s ability to affect the world around him and brings to light the delicate relationship between circumstance, individual action, and destiny.

Reviews
    Praise for Death Sentences
    “What treats you have in store! All these stories show their authors to be masters of their craft.”
Ian Rankin
    Praise for Thomas H. Cook
    ‘Thomas H. Cook writes with uncommon elegance, intelligence and emotional insight.’
The Times
    ‘
Sandrine
is a heart-breaking, heart-stopping love story as well as a taut, gripping courtroom drama, woven as masterfully and diabolically as a hangman’s noose. Nobody does it better than Thomas H. Cook!’
Judith Kelman
    ‘One of crime fiction’s most prodigious talents, a master of the unexpected ending.’
New York Times
    ‘From the compelling opening to the poignant resolution,
Sandrine
is a hauntingly beautiful and deeply moving novel that is at its core a story of a love both complex and enduring. Ingeniously conceived and elegantly written, it throbs with the suspense and insight into the human heart that we’ve come to expect of Thomas H. Cook.’
Anne D. LeClaire
    ‘Thomas H. Cook is a rare jewel of a writer, a powerful storyteller and an elegant stylist. If you are not familiar with his work, you absolutely should be.’
John Hart
    ‘Thomas H. Cook is a master of the psychological suspense novel.’
Sunday Telegraph
    ‘Thomas H. Cook writes like a wounded angel.’
Peter Straub
    ‘A tender love story in the form of a tense courtroom drama,
Sandrine
is mystery, metaphor, and morality wrapped together in a nifty package, a chance to observe grace (or treachery) under pressure. Thomas H. Cook’s elegant new novel offers all that great narrative pleasure. You’ll be baffled right up to the Wow of an ending. What a terrific story!’
Susan Isaacs
    ‘Thomas H. Cook is at his best here as he grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go until the verdict is announced.’
Anne Hood on
Sandrine

About the Series Editors
    O TTO P ENZLER is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and an Edgar-award winning anthologist.
    I AN R ANKIN is the bestselling author of the Rebus series.

About Death Sentences
    Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short stories to die for from the world’s best crime writers.
    With an introduction from Ian Rankin,
Death Sentences
includes original, specially commissioned stories about deadly books from Jeffrey Deaver, Andrew Taylor, Laura Lippman, C.J. Box, Anne Perry, Ken Bruen, Thomas H. Cook, Micky Spillaine & Max Adam Collins, Nelson DeMille and John Connolly.

    Pronghorns of the Third Reich
In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that