: In the winter of 1944, British RAF pilots Bryan Underwood and James Young are shot down over Germany during a reconnaissance mission.
: Readers on The StoryGraph describe the book as dark, tense, and slow-paced, with graphic depictions of medical trauma and torture. La casa del alfabeto
: During the escape from the hospital at the end of the war, the two friends were separated. Bryan managed to escape, but James was left behind. : In the winter of 1944, British RAF
The plot is divided into two primary timelines: the peak of World War II and decades later in the 1970s. Bryan managed to escape, but James was left behind
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: The train takes them to La Casa del Alfabeto , a high-security psychiatric hospital near Freiburg. To keep their cover, Bryan and James must fake insanity while enduring brutal medical treatments and constant surveillance.