by Brian Moore · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006550235
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«The Statement» is the suspense novel by Brian Moore, published by Flamingo in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Pierre Brossard, a Nazi collaborator during World War II, lives as a fugitive in present-day France, accused of murdering fourteen Jews. The Catholic Church has given him protection, but the new charge of crimes against humanity reduces his hiding places and confronts him with the consequences of his past.
Will appeal to readers of historical thrillers and suspense set during World War II and its aftermath.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
