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The Final Reckoning

by Sam Bourne
Henny Fordham
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From the author of Number One bestseller The Righteous Men. How are hundreds of unexplained deaths, spanning the globe, connected to the last great secret of the Second World War? Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer in New York. A gambling addiction has lost him his home, his wife and his good character. So when the UN call him in to do their dirty work, he accepts the job without hesitation. A suspected suicide bomber shot by UN security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man: Tom must placate the family and limit their claims for compensation. In London, Tom meets the dead man's alluring daughter, Rebecca, and learns that her father was not quite the innocent he seemed. He unravels details of a unique, hidden brotherhood, united in a mission that has spanned the world and caused hundreds of unexplained deaths. Pursued by those ready to kill to uncover the truth, Tom has to unlock a secret that has lain buried for more than 60 years – the last great secret of the Second World War.

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  • Release date

    August 4, 2008

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      • ISBN: 9780007288472
      • File size: 114206 KB
      • Duration: 03:57:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 4, 2010
      British author Bourne (the pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland) wisely eschews another foray into Da Vinci Code territory, like The Righteous Men or The Last Testament, in this solid suspense novel focused on the recent past. Former U.N. lawyer Tom Byrne gets an early morning phone call from his old boss, Henning Munchau, who wants Tom back for one more job. A guard at the U.N. building has just shot a suspected terrorist who was thought to be a suicide bomber, except it turns out that this supposed terrorist is Gerald Merton, a 77-year-old Lithuanian Holocaust survivor who as a child fought the Nazis as part of the Jewish underground. When Byrne investigates, he finds that Merton is not as innocent as he appears, and that his visit to the U.N. concerns a great secret that spans the years from the end of WWII to the present. Happily, Bourne has tightened up his writing and toned down the feverish pace and purple prose of his earlier work.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      An old Jewish man is killed at the U.N. building, and a young professional unexpectedly finds himself the investigator. He falls for the old man's daughter, who--and why didn't we guess this?--has a powerful secret. It's understandable why Sam Bourne's work has been compared to Dan (THE DA VINCI CODE) Brown's. But Bourne has the advantage--with original characters, stronger dialogue, and a plot that has gravitas--much of it dealing with repression in the Kovno Ghetto during WWII (in what is now Lithuania). Narrator Adam Sims does a swell job delivering the goods and is especially strong with accents. Check out his subtle Lithuanian accent, used for the diary readings. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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