![]() ![]() A noirish, deeply felt novel of intrigue and identity written in O'Nan's trademark lucent style, City of Secrets asks how both despair and faith can lead us astray, and what happens when, with the noblest intentions, we join movements beyond our control. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late, and the tragedy that ensues changes history. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, reclaims his faith, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting secret missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he begins to suspect he's being used by their cell's dashing leader, Asher. Now driving a taxi provided - like his new identity - by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, he tries to become again the man he was before the war - honest, strong, capable of moral choice. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. City of Secrets follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. You can easily improve your search by specifying the number of letters in the answer. ![]() Below are all possible answers to this clue ordered by its rank. We think the likely answer to this clue is ONAN. You’ll rarely catch O’Nan being an author. The crossword clue City of Secrets author Stewart with 4 letters was last seen on the February 27, 2016. Those who made it were hunted as illegals by the British mandatory authorities there and relied on the underground to shelter them taking fake names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for the independence of Israel. City of Secrets is, by inclination and design, quiet and finite, but its impact is deceptively large because O’Nan (West of Sunset, Emily, Alone) has something that can’t be taught to a writer and can indeed be unlearned by talented writers: the gift of authenticity. In 1945, with no homes to return to, Jewish refugees by the tens of thousands set out for Palestine. From master storyteller Stewart O'Nan, a timely moral thriller of the Jewish underground resistance in Jerusalem after the Second World War ![]()
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