I have scanned a few of my favorite books. This one by Loup Durand is
probably my favorite. I thought I would post them in here and share them.
Hopefully you all will read them and like them too.
P. S. this is not sexual story. But the main characters form a father son
relationship.
Daddy Dust Jacket.txt
FROM THE DUST JACKET
From the moment it first appeared in European bookstores, DADDY has become a literary phenomenon. A number-one best seller in France and a triumph all over Europe, DADDY marks the American debut of a major talent. It is a novel so compelling, a story so exciting, that it is certain to confirm Loup Durand s status as an international best seller in the tradition of John le Carre and Frederick Forsythe.
World War II has broken out in Europe and the Germans have occupied France. In the course of their investigations, the Nazis discover that an elderly banker has been secreting Jewish fortunes to protect them from confiscation-and the fund now totals more than $350 million. Stashed in banks, laundered and protected with complicated coded account numbers, the money is virtually impossible to get. When the banker kills himself in the midst of being tortured by the Gestapo, there is only one person alive who knows the complex codes, who can get to the incredible sum of money. That person is Thomas, the banker's eleven-year-old great-grandson.
Thus begins a frantic manhunt across Europe, with the Nazi is in pursuit. Thomas's mother, in hiding, manages to get word to her American ex-lover, not only to tell him for the first time that he has a son, but that he has a son whose life he must save.
Each suspenseful page is peopled by compelling and real characters, including:
THOMAS: His eleven-year-old body hides the mind of a genius, one containing the secret to $350 million-a mind that must outwit an entire army to stay alive.
DAVID QUARTERMAIN: An American playboy financier, to whom the war in Europe seems quite remote until he learns that he has a French son, a son he must save.
GREGOR LAEMMLE: A brilliant, sadistic Nazi officer in charge of tracking young Thomas; his target quickly becomes his obsession.
MARIA WEBER: Thomas's young and breathtakingly beautiful mother, who must trust the man she once loved to save her son, the fortune of an entire nation, and-perhaps-herself.
DADDY is much more than a thriller. It is the deeply affecting story of the relationship between a father and son, between good and evil, and between guilt and love. DADDY is a stunning work of fiction, a novel which you will never forget.
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