In 1939, Thomas Danforth, a privileged man in his twenties, became embroiled in a plot that could have changed the world - a plot to kill Hitler. Now, in his ninety-first year, at the dawn of a troubled new era, he sits in the luxury of New York's Century Club and tells his tale to the young man from Washington he has summoned, for reasons of his own, to hear it. By turns a spy thriller, a war story, a saga of betrayal, vengeance and obsessive love, THE QUEST FOR ANNA KLEIN is the extraordinary new novel from Thomas H.