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And to my wife, Lynn, who has stood next to me through many such rides, believing in them (mostly), this being just one more. Your partnership in life is evident within these pages.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
A number of books and firsthand accounts, some already mentioned in the Author’s Note, helped enormously in the writing and preparation of The One Man:
FDR AND THE HOLOCAUST
FDR and the Jews, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman (Harvard University Press, 2013).
“Orthodox Ends, Unorthodox Means: The Role of the Vaad Hatzalah and Agudath Israel during the Holocaust,” David H. Kranzler. In The Goldberg Commission Report: American Jewry during the Holocaust, ed. Maxwell Seymour Finger (1984, 2011).
Saving the Jews: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Holocaust, Robert N. Rosen (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006).
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindberg, and America’s Fight over World War II, Lynne Olson (Random House, 2013).
JEWISH CULTURE
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Vintage Books, 2006).
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
Jewish Literacy, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin (William Morrow and Company, 1991).
The Adventures of a Mathematician, S. M. Ulam (The University of California Press, 1991).
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes (Simon and Schuster, 1986).
The Physics of the Manhattan Project, Bruce Cameron Reed (Springer-Verlag, 2015).
AUSCHWITZ
Eyewitness Auschwitz, Filip Müller (Ivan R. Dee, 1979).
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, Shlomo Venzia (Polity Press, 2009).
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz, Denis Avey with Rob Broomby (Da Capo Press, 2011).
True Tales from a Grotesque Land, Auschwitz, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk (University of North Carolina Press, 1985).
POLISH LIFE IN WWII
The Polish Officer, Alan Furst (Random House, 1995).
ALSO BY ANDREW GROSS
One Mile Under
Everything to Lose
No Way Back
15 Seconds
Eyes Wide Open
Reckless
Don’t Look Twice
The Dark Tide
The Blue Zone
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Judge & Jury
Lifeguard
3rd Degree
The Jester
2nd Chance
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANDREW GROSS is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of nine novels, including No Way Back, Everything to Lose, and most recently, One Mile Under. He is also coauthor of five #1 New York Times bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Lynn. They have three children. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
EPIGRAPH
PROLOGUE
PART ONE
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
PART TWO
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
PART THREE
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
CHAPTER 45
CHAPTER 46
CHAPTER 47
CHAPTER 48
CHAPTER 49
CHAPTER 50
PART FOUR
CHAPTER 51
CHAPTER 52
CHAPTER 53
CHAPTER 54
CHAPTER 55
CHAPTER 56
CHAPTER 57
CHAPTER 58
CHAPTER 59
CHAPTER 60
CHAPTER 61
CHAPTER 62
CHAPTER 63
CHAPTER 64
CHAPTER 65
CHAPTER 66
CHAPTER 67
CHAPTER 68
CHAPTER 69
CHAPTER 70
CHAPTER 71
CHAPTER 72
CHAPTER 73
CHAPTER 74
CHAPTER 75
CHAPTER 76
CHAPTER 77
EPILOGUE
AUTHOR’S NOTE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
ALSO BY ANDREW GROSS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE ONE MAN. Copyright © 2016 by Andrew Gross. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016007570 | ISBN 9781250079503 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781466892187 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Fiction. | Auschwitz (Concentration camp)—Fiction. | Concentration camp inmates—Fiction. | Undercover operations—Fiction. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Historical fiction.
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