A Year as a Lion by Roman, Eric - 1978

New York: Stein and Day. Good in Good jacket Very Good in Very Good jacket Ex-Library. 24 cm. ABOUT THE BOOK-Condition very good in read boards with black cloth spine, DJ very good in mylar cover glued to board, ex-library with usual markings, library barcode on front of mylar. A Year as a Lion-Paul Brenner's chance to live, as his favorite Nietzche once wrote, "a year as a lion, rather than a hundred years as a sheep, " comes with an introduction to the father of one of his college students, a man who reveals himself as a recruting agent for an American intelligence gathering organization. Brennner, who is considered by many members of his synagogue as being an emotionally scarred Holocaust Jew with exaggerated notions of patriotism, agrees to become an undercover agent and with the uneasy consent of his wife and family, travels to his native Hungary, ostensibly as a research student. What happens to Paul Brenner in Hungary, and then Vienna, and finally America, where he re-emerges as Zvi Moshe, a legendary anti-communist and underground poet, combines all the gripping qualities of an international spy thriller with a much larger theme that deals with the despair and anguish of men confronted by severe crises of conscience. With the conclusion of his assignment a year later, Brenner decides to return to private life, but before he can several questions must be answered: What motivations truly lay behind his one-year mission? What, in the larger scheme of things, was his mission supposed to accomplish, and did it indeed accomplish what Brenner's employers had hoped for? When Brenner learns the answers to these questions he also learns the answer to his own fate. . Good. Hardcover. 1978.