Good av C. P. Taylor

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Professor John Halder is a ''good'' man. But ''good'' men must adapt to survive.As the world faces its Second World War, Halder finds himself pulled into a movement with unthinkable consequences.<i>Good</i> is a story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in the upper reaches of the Nazi administration. John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good man; he diligently visits his blind and senile mother and looks after his vacant wife and three children. He is unremarkable, other than an unusual neurotic tic: the imaginary sound of band music plays in the background of his life, particularly at moments of high emotion. But by writing a book ¿ the result of his own experience ¿ discussing euthanasia for senile elderly people and by lecturing on the delicacy of German literary culture, John has unintentionally made himself a very desirable acquisition for the Nazi party.A profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rat