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<p>Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller&nbsp;<font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Schindler’s List,</span></font>&nbsp;Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War II Australia. As Sydney braces itself for a Japanese invasion, Father Frank Darragh finds his pastoral duties becoming increasingly challenging. How should he counsel an AWOL black American soldier who may face death for his involvement with a white woman? And what should he say to another woman—the distressingly beguiling Kate Heggarty—who impresses him with her virtue even as she edges toward sin?<br style=""><br style="">When Kate is found murdered, Darragh falls under suspicion. And even if the police clear him, his superiors—and his own conscience—may not.&nbsp;<font color="#181818" face="Merriweather, Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Office of Innocence&nbsp;</span></font>is a book that’s impossible to put down, dense with moral complexity and alive with period detail.<br></p>