Clifford Irving

The second novel in the series, The Spring, "focuses on the lives of three women, Tora, Frida and Ingrid, moves the story on from the early twentieth century to the interwar years."--Back cover.

At a Nazi death camp in Poland, the strangled body of an informer is discovered by the Jewish mistress of the camp commandant. Then an SS lieutenant is found, throat cut ear to ear. The Gestapo orders the Berlin Criminal Police to solve these crimes. The hunter is Paul Bach, Chief Homicide Inspector, a widower and wounded combat veteran of the Russian Front, a man at odds with war and Nazi evil. And the hunted is 'the Angel of Zin,' a killer who always leaves a clue in the form of a note. As hunter closes in on hunted, this daring and unusual novel offers an answer to the question all supposedly decent men and women at some time must ask themselves: "If I had been a German then, and realized what was happening, what would I have done?"

The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax of our time--his "autobiography" of Howard Hughes--was published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a bestseller.But no American hardcover house would touch THE HOAX until now. One major publisher offered a $500,000 advance when the book was nearing completion, drew up the contract…then abruptly bowed out.Why?The answer is implicit in this classic tale of daring, treachery, and corruption. As fast-paced and exciting as any spy novel, it involves the reader at every devilish twist and turn. In this first U.S. hardcover edition, Clifford Irving tells how the hoax developed, like a Chinese puzzle, from its madcap beginning to the final startling confession--a witty and nail-biting story of international intrigue and beautiful women, of powerful corporate executives and jet-set rogues, of cover-ups and headlines.

"All that George W. Bush had to do was plant a weapon of mass destruction on Saddam Hussein in his little cave. He could have posed the tyrant holding a baby atom bomb in his lap with a bucket of anthrax at his side. He didn't bother. From the start of the Iraqi affair the Bush Administration's mendacities have been negligently slapped together because their artificers knew that they had a public which will believe any preposterous confabulation tossed in its direction." "As it turned out "old Europe" didn't buy it, nor did old Asia or old Africa or old South America or old anywhere. Only in new America did the masses and the elites swallow more White House whoppers than they serve at Burger King. How is it that the rest of the world saw Iraq for the toothless military has-been it was, while Americans looked at the half starved, bombed out, burned out, dilapidated country and saw a juggernaut?" "Hoax explains that Americans have their own reality at variance with the rest of the world's. Having perfected the domed stadium, Americans have erected a transcontinental astrodome, their own private biosphere, under which they breathe their own air and cultivate life forms unknown anywhere else on the planet. Like Russian nesting dolls, Americans live in a succession of diminishing bubbles. They shop in bubbled malls, they live in gated communities, and they move from place to place breathing their own, private air in the bubble-mobiles known as SUVs." "Hoax tells the story of how Americas lost their pioneer independence to become bobbleheads in Bubbleland and found a new world to conquor in the far off Middle East."--BOOK JACKET.

Clifford Irving’s new novel, not yet published in print, tells the tale of Billy Braverman, a young genius, TV star, and passionate rock climber – and he’s in trouble. Billy is indicted in a New York juvenile court for the killing of his teen-aged girlfriend’s father, Carter Bedford, a garbage collector who believes he may be a descendant of Shakespeare. Son of a criminal defense attorney and an eminent mutual fund founder, Billy has a heart of gold and the canny mind of an old soul. Can he possibly be guilty of murder? – and, if he’s guilty, what drove him to do it? I Remember Amnesia follows this extraordinary gifted boy – accompanied by Amy, a beautiful girl with a dangerous secret, and Iphigenia, a pgymy green monkey with a remarkable talent – on a unique literary journey that we want never to end.

Warren Blackburn is a 29-year-old criminal defence lawyer in Houston, Texas, son of a distinguished judge. He makes a fatal error of judgement and is disbarred for a couple of years. When he returns, he faces two cases that echo the case that brought him down.

Rez.: Der Bezug des deutschen Titels zum Buch ist der Rezensentin unerfindlich geblieben. Auf amerikanisch heißt es "The Spring", und diese Quelle in der Nähe des paradiesisch abgelegenen Gebirgdorfs, in das die Liebe einen erfolgreichen Rechtsanwalt aus der Stadt, verschlagen hat, ist - um das etwas alberne Geheimnis, dessen Auflösung freilich zahlreiche Winke mit dem Scheunentor frühzeitig vorwegnehmen, hier gleich auszuplaudern - ein Jungbrunnen und wird von der verschworenen Gemeinschaft der Einheimischen eifersüchtig gehütet. Bei seinen Recherchen im Zusammenhang mit 2 seltsamen Todesfällen entdeckt der Held die tragische Schattenseite der ewigen Jugend. Ein eher schlichter Thriller mit Pseudo-Tiefgang. Sonderbar rüstig sind die alten Leute in dem paradiesisch abgelegenen Gebirgsdorf, in das die Liebe den erfolgreichen Rechtsanwalt Dennis Conway verschlagen hat. Bei seinen Recherchen entdeckt er die tragische Schattenseite solch ewiger Jugend.