Charyn skillfully breathes life into historical icons.
-- New Yorker J.
Salinger, mysterious author of The Catcher in the Rye , is remembered today as a reclusive misanthrope.
Jerome Charyn 's Salinger is a young American WWII draftee assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, a band of secret soldiers who trained with the British.
A rifleman and an interrogator, he witnessed all the horrors of the war--from the landing on D-Day to the relentless.
