New York: Henry Holt, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this British playwright, the son of actors Sir Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. "Richard Thurgo is a voyeur of life, a Cornish cad masquerading for 20 years as an ex-Nazi in postwar Hamburg after a jeep crash in Spain incongruously gives him another man's identity [while he was presumed dead, only the feet were sent back for burial]. . . In its surprise twists and turns, this astonishing, affecting, rich novel mirrors the dislocations of our century." (PW) 655 pp. ISBN: 0-805014047.