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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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Revision as of 19:02, 7 May 2017
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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