num_pages: 352
description: Thomas Danforth has lived a fortunate life. The son of a wealthy importer he traveled the world in his youth and now in his twenties he lives in New York City and runs the family business. It is 1939 and the world is on the brink of war but Danforths life is untroubled his future assured. Then on a snowy evening walk along Gramercy Park a friend poses a fateful question. As it turns out this friend has a dangerous idea that can change the world. Danforth is to provide a place where a brilliant woman can receive training in firearms and explosives. This is to be the beginning of an international plot carried out by the mysterious Anna Kleina plot that will ensnare Danforth in more ways than one. When the plan goes wrong and Klein disappears Danforths quest begins: it is a journey of ever-shifting alliances and betrayals that will lead him across a war-torn world in search of answers. Now in his ninety-first year at the dawn of a troubled new era he sits in luxury at the Century Club and tells his tale to the young man from Washington he has summoned for reasons of his own to hear it.
language: English
title: The Quest for Anna Klein: An Otto Penzler Book
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt