Protagonist Paul Christopher's father, Hubbard is a native of the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts, a New England patrician, and Yale graduate. He lives cheaply in Berlin as a writer between the wars, but prefers the countryside. At Berwick, he meets Baroness Hannelore von Buecheler "Lori," whom he marries about the time that son Paul is born. Tensions with the Gestapo or secret police rise as the Christophers smuggle Jews and Bolsheviks to safety in Denmark and Lori antagonizes the local Gestapo chief. Fleeing Nazi Germany, they are stopped at the border. Hubbard and Paul are forcibly ejected while Lori, is arrested. Hubbard becomes obsessed with finding and liberating Lori.
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