Prolific and consistently impressive… as usual, Busch weds a dark, morally ambiguous world view to superbly composed prose…

New Yorker

War Babies

Fiction by Frederick Busch

A short but powerful tale weaving together moral complexity and romantic intrigue, Frederick Busch’s War Babies is the story of an American lawyer in his mid-thirties (Peter Santore) who travels to England in an attempt to tie up the loose ends of his own dark past. Peter’s father, a prisoner who turned traitor in a Korean War POW camp, might have had something to do with a fellow captive’s death, the father of one Hilary Pennels––now a woman Peter’s age who lives in Salisbury. When Peter and Hilary meet, they both want information from the other, and more, and find themselves engaged in a wary dance of attraction laced with mistrust. But it may be a third person, the sole remaining survivor of the camp––a Mr. Fox––who holds the key to the mystery of betrayal that haunts Peter and Hilary alike.

Paperback(published Jun, 01 2001)

ISBN
9780811214766
Price US
12.95
Trim Size
5x8

Clothbound(published Jun, 01 2001)

ISBN
9780811211031
Price US
15.95
Trim Size
5x8
Portrait of Frederick Busch

Frederick Busch

20th century American short story writer and novelist

Prolific and consistently impressive… as usual, Busch weds a dark, morally ambiguous world view to superbly composed prose…

New Yorker