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Dark Hero
	First edition (publ. Collins)
Author	Peter Cheyney
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Collins
Publication date	1946
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Pages	255 p.
OCLC	154593754

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Dark Hero is a 1946 thriller by Peter Cheyney featuring a Chicago gangster involved in the gang wars of the 1930s, who during the Second World War finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway and becomes a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster.

The book's nonlinear narrative shifts and jumps back and forth between pre-war Chicago, wartime Norway, the Nazi concentration camp where the protagonist ended after being captured by the Gestapo, and London in the immediate aftermath of the war - where he seeks to exact deadly revenge on those who betrayed him to the Nazis. Events and characters from the different periods - and in particular, the different women in the protagonist's life - constantly interweave and influence each other in unexpected ways.

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+'''''Dark Hero''''' is a 1946 [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] by [[Peter Cheyney]] featuring a [[Chicago#20th century|Chicago]] gangster involved in the [[Saint Valentine's Day massacre|gang war]]s of the 1930s, who during the [[Second World War]] finds himself in [[Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany|Nazi-occupied Norway]] and becomes a hero of the [[milorg|anti-Nazi resistance]] - by applying essentially the same skills which had made him a successful and feared gangster.
-The book's [[Nonlinear narrative]] shifts and jumps back and forth between pre-war Chicago, wartime Norway, the Nazi [[concentration camp]] where the protagonist ended after being captured by the [[Gestapo]], and [[History of London#London 1945-2000|London]] in the immediate aftermath of the war - where he seeks to exact deadly revenge on those who betrayed him to the Nazis. Events and characters from the different periods - and in  particular, the different women in the protagonist's life - constantly interweave and influence each other in unexpected ways.
+The book's [[nonlinear narrative]] shifts and jumps back and forth between pre-war Chicago, wartime Norway, the Nazi [[concentration camp]] where the protagonist ended after being captured by the [[Gestapo]], and [[History of London#London 1945–2000|London]] in the immediate aftermath of the war - where he seeks to exact deadly revenge on those who betrayed him to the Nazis. Events and characters from the different periods - and in  particular, the different women in the protagonist's life - constantly interweave and influence each other in unexpected ways.
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