The Gordian knot / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Peter Constantine Schlink, Bernhard

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Schlink, Bernhard
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Translators - Fiction.; Spy stories; Crime and mystery - Fiction.
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Georg Polger gives up a comfortable existence in Germany to work as a freelance translator in the France. One day he is approached by Mr Bulnakov, who wants Georg to take over a local translation agency. Georg falls in love with Bulnakov's secretary, Francoise, and takes on a lucrative project left unfinished by his predecessor, translating plans for military helicopters. But everything changes when Georg notices Francoise copying his plans. She tells Georg that Bulnakov has threatened to harm her brother if she refuses to do his bidding. When Georg confronts Bulnakov Francoise disappears, and mysterious elements within the village try to hound him out. All he has left of Francoise is a picture she gave him of a church, which she told him was in Warsaw. But when a friend tells him the church is actually in New York, Georg flies to America in a desperate bid to track down Francoise, and unravel the web of deceit.
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