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During World War II, British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young are tasked with a risky photo‑reconnaissance over Dresden. When their plane is shot down, they escape by leaping aboard a train carrying wounded SS soldiers. Impelled by desperation, they replace two patients and plunge into the Alphabet House, a clandestine German psychiatric facility behind enemy lines. There, under brutal shock therapies and experimental drugs, they must conceal their true identities as the war ends. Their friendship and resolve are tested as they discover others feigning insanity within the hospital’s dark halls.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Jussi Adler-Olsen
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