David Golder is a page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth
Where there is a crime there must be a finding
it'll be the heist of the century
news reaches the army that Galba has been killed in a coup
and SHOOTING IN THE DARK
Kingdom Of Shadows Sara Taylor David Golder is a page-turninglyParis, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for his uncle, Count Janos Polanyi. Polanyi is a diplomat and, desperate to stop his country's drift into alliance with Nazi Germany, he trades in conspiracy with SS renegades, Abwehr officers, British spies and NKVD defectors, leading