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The Lamb's War: A Novel

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I bought this hardback book at a garage sale and I am amazed that it turned out to be one of the best books I've ever read. It's the story of a woman who bicycles her way into a Nazi concentration camp, is saved from death by some Quaker ambulance volunteers and is eventually plunged into a bizarre situation in an isolated Native American village in New Mexico.

What makes De Hartog's writing especially interesting is his ability to dig deep into the psyche of this woman, who suffered an unbearable trauma but keeps going using mental tricks that we can recognize in our own lives or in people who come our way.

In addition, every time you think you have this woman or the story line figured out, the plot goes off in a direction you never expected, not at all typical of novels published in 1979.

It seems ironic that Amazon is selling this book for one cent when it is so much better than most novels you come across... talk about a bargain!

John J. Pint

I can hardly believe this book was written by the same man who wrote The Peaceable Kingdom. It started out interestingly enough but quickly declined into complete and utter drivel. I did finish it, but only because I had taken the unusual (for me) step of actually BUYING it, but when I had come to the end, I put it in the trash, not wanting to inflict it on anyone else.