# The Day of the Lie

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- Book: [The Day of the Lie](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-brodrick/the-day-of-the-lie) ([The Day of the Lie.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-brodrick/the-day-of-the-lie.md))
- Authors: [William Brodrick](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-brodrick)
- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4811-565-5
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

They came for me in November nineteen fifty-one and took me to Mokotow prison. Cambridge, the present day. And out of the past, a cry for help: Father Anselm, the brilliant Benedictine, receives a visit from an old friend with a dangerous story to tell - the story of a woman betrayed by time, fate, and someone close to her . . . someone still unknown. As a young woman, Roza Mojeska was part of an underground resistance group in Communist Poland. But after her arrest, an agent of the secret police makes her a devil's bargain - and in the dark of a government prison, a terrible choice is made. Now, fifty years later, Anselm is called upon to investigate both Roza's story and a mystery dating back to the early 1980s, in the icy grip of the Cold War. And as he peels back years of history, decades of secrets, a half-century of lies, he exposes a truth that victim and torturer would keep hidden...