VGC.Simon & Schuster,2005.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the front cover) with Dj(two small watermarks inside the edges of the back Dj cover,small nick and crease on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice and clean pages with some creases on the pages,the second last blank page of the book is missing.The book is in VGC except for the missing page.277pp.Price un-clipped.First edition. This is another paragraph Synopsis: Polish war exile Julia Smollen has escaped the horrors of a Nazi labour camp to forge a new life in California, with her daughter, Tasha. Sent away to the best school her mother can afford, growing up through the Cold War and the Space Race and coming into contact with the aspiring young Democrat, Jack Kennedy, Tasha is precocious, wilful and politically engaged. As intensely close as Tasha and her mother are, however, she remains unaware of the true identity of her father, the courageous German officer Martin Hamer, who was fatally wounded helping the then-pregnant Julia flee her occupied homeland. But Julia cannot keep the truth hidden from her daughter for ever. A sinister figure from the past is about to emerge, with his own dark, vengeful agenda.