The Darkroom of Damocles

"During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a man named Dorbeck. Dorbeck gives Osewoudt a series of dangerous assignments helping British agents and eliminating traitors. But the assassinations get out of hand, and when Osewoudt discovers that his wife denounced him to the Germans, he kills her too." "At the end of the war Osewoudt himself is taken for a traitor and captured. He cannot prove that he received his assignments from Dorbeck. Worse, he cannot prove that Dorbeck ever existed. It is the very impossibility of ascertaining the "right" side and the "wrong" side - the moral issue of the Second World War in a nutshell - that makes Hermans's novel as breathtaking now as when it was written."--BOOK JACKET.Hermans, Willem Frederik is the author of 'The Darkroom of Damocles', published 2008 under ISBN 9781590200629 and ISBN 1590200624.