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Olympic Affair: A Novel of Hitler's Siren and America's
Hero. In December from Taylor Trade. Among the "Advance Praise": "Give a talented journalist an engrossing storyline – especially a sports writer
accustomed to the drama of games – and he will keep you mesmerized by the who, what, where, when and why of the unfolding
adventure. And so it is with Terry Frei’s Olympic Affair. Set against the 1936 Berlin Olympics
– remembered primarily for Jesse Owens’ four gold-medal performance and Adolf Hitler’s disdain for him –
Frei focuses on the decathlon champion, America’s Glenn Morris, and his affair with the renowned German actress and
Olympic film director, Leni Riefenstahl. It is, then, a compelling look at an historic sporting event and a love/sex scandal
cloaked in intrigue and danger. Frei’s style is reporter/novelist, cleanly balanced between event and character, offering
a panorama of human triumph saddened by failure. Of the books I’ve read in the past four or five years, this one is
near the top of the list." --Terry Kay, author of To Dance with the White Dog and The Book of Marie
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