To The Last Page

Adam Miller is a US-Army war-crimes investigator in 1946, just after the war, investigating and gathering of intelligence on the Nazi perpetrators of the horrors of the concentration camps and attempting to bring them to justice. On leave and visiting his widowed mother in Venice, he is horrified to discover that she is engaged to a distinguished Italian doctor, Gianni Maglione, suspecting – despite the advice of his mother’s friend Bertie that she in love with the man and has never been happier – that he is really after her money. Adam meets Claudia at a party, a young Jewish girl who suffered at the hands of her captors in one of the camps and when they meet Gianni, she believes she recognises the man who handed over her sick father to the occupying German forces during the war, to die in a concentration camp, or more likely since he was so ill, on the train on the way there. Using his contacts in intelligence, Adam investigates Gianni’s background and finds some suspicious activitie