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In search of Klingsor

by Jorge Volpi Escalante

"In 1940, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is invited to join the prestigious institute at Princeton, the world's foremost physics research facility. But a series of personal indiscretions forces him to accept a different, more sinister, assignment: uncover "Klingsor," Hitler's top adviser on the scientific work in the Third Reich, including the race to create the first atomic bomb.". "Bacon's efforts to expose the truth lead him first to Gustav Links, a survivor of the attempted coup against Hitler. With Links's help, he continues searching postwar Germany - in an era when a secret was really a secret and a lie wasn't necessarily a sin - and falls into a complicated relationship with an alluring woman. His search for Klingsor, an ominous and seemingly omniscient adversary, is part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part witty intellectual game. In Search of Klingsor places real people in speculative historical fiction, combining the ingenuity of a scientific investigation with the suspense of a great espionage novel."--BOOK JACKET.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?