The Man Who Knew Charlie Chaplin

by Eric Koch

In October 1929, wealthy and famous American financier, Peter Hammersmith received a copy of a book. The book was Mein Kampf'. Astonished and disturbed he rushes off to Washington to consult his friend President Hoover. Hoover immediately assigns Peter to travel to his native Berlin, to investigate the political and economic climate and to write a full report with recommendations for the President of the United States. The setting, the urgency of the issues, the array of historical characters, the unique mise en scene...all combine to make this an unusual and important novel. And, in the hands of the accomplished novelist Eric Koch, this book is destined to be widely discussed.

"* "(Koch's) imaginative agillty, inventiveness and stylish wit, have enabled him to create an original and highly entertaining work." -Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature

Born in Germany, in 1919, Eric Koch left for England as a refugee in 1935. In 1940 he was interned as an "enemy alien" and shipped to Canada.