Running Dog

About this book

Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlins fall -- with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably more than one want it. Unfortunately for Moll in the black-market world of erotica the currency is blackmail torture and corruption; and no price is too high. As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motives their souls even the object itself DeLillo reveals the terrible truth behind our acquisitiveness. This is a romantic novel in the gritty precisionist enigmatic modern mode ...a full pleasure to read New Yorker