Here is an exclusive excerpt from writer Joseph O’Connor’s new World War II thriller The Ghosts of Rome. It’s the second in the best-selling author’s Rome Escape Line trilogy. They’re ...

“My Father’s House” was about a clandestine group that smuggled Allied soldiers and Jews out of Nazi-occupied Rome. “The Ghosts of Rome” picks up the story and tells how the ragtag band ...

It’s essentially the same group readers met in Irish novelist Joseph O’Connor’s first book My Father’s House, but characters are developed in more depth in The Ghosts of Rome, O’Connor ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week take a philosophical turn — from novels that sneak meditations on memory and identity into their ...