title: The Last Innocent Hour: A Novel
author:  Margot Abbott 
description: This absorbing first novel, which skillfully evokes life in the '30s and '40s, is the story of a woman who loses her ideals and her love to the ravages of WW II in Nazi Germany. After the war, American army lieutenant Sally Jackson, 33, has returned to her former home in Berlin as part of a special military intelligence unit assigned to analyze photographic evidence of Nazi war crimes. While committed to her job, Sally is afraid of the past; she flinches from thoughts of her German husband whom she left 12 years earlier, and her connections with Nazi brass. But a confrontation with memory is inevitable, and Abbott allows Sally a long first-person flashback to 1933. A Nazi commander's obsession with sex and power corrupts her husband, Christian, turning the sensitive but insecure man into a killing machine and destroying the marriage. As the narrative returns to 1946, Sally breaks through her defenses and takes action to locate Christian. Protracted and melodramatic recollections and a few stereotypical characters detract only slightly from this fascinating psychological drama. 125,000 first printing; $125,000 ad/promo. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Final Hour is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination
  or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  A Bantam Books eBook Original
  Copyright © 2015 by Dean Koontz
  All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House
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  eBook ISBN 9781101965474
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  Contents
  Cover
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Chapter 1: Unwanted Knowledge
  Chapter 2: Wipeout Without Nose Guard
  Chapter 3: Share a Kiss or Kick Some Butt?
  Chapter 4: Where She Walks, the Earth Is Scorched
  Chapter 5: The Necessary Computer Wiz
  Chapter 6: Ursula and the Evil Twin
  Chapter 7: She Walks in Beauty Like a Polyester Resin
  