A Lamb to the Slaughter
Montyn, Jan / Kooiman, Dirk![A Lamb to the Slaughter](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/225/2259766/CHSBZCOP032259766.jpg)
Enough agony and adventure for a dozen lives packed into a fastpaced, breathless, often gripping book. Montyn (a successful painter very well served here by novelist-co-author Kooiman and translator Dixon) was born about 1925 to a joyless, conservative, Calvinist family in a Dutch village called Oudewater. This peaceful tedium was shattered by the Nazi occupation. The naive, apolitical Montyn dodged compulsory factory work by volunteering to g...