Desperate Moment is a 1951 thriller novel by the German writer Martha Albrand, then living in the United States.

[1] It takes place in postwar Europe where a man breaks out of prison to try and find the men who set him up.

In 1953 it was made into a British film of the same title directed by Compton Bennett and starring Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling and Albert Lieven.

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