Exactamente a la una de la mañana del sábado 6 de noviembre de 1943, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer de las SS y jefe de la Policía, recibió un lacónico mensaje: Ha llegado el Águila. Quería decir que un pequeño destacamento de paracaidistas alemanes había llegado a Inglaterra con el propósito de secuestrar al Primer ministro, Winston Churchill, sacándolo de la casa de campo de Norfolk, lugar en el que se encontraba pasando un fin de semana.
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This novel was placed number 16 in the best novels of the XXth century, and is considered a real american classic. The ambitious but ill-educated and immature Clyde Griffiths is raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, and on reaching young adulthood takes low-status jobs as a soda jerk and then as a bellhop at a top Kansas City hotel. There, his more sophisticated colleagues introduce him to alcohol and prostitutes, something he starts to enjoy...