Film tie-in.
Originally published: London: Macdonald, 1982.
Cover title: Apt pupil.
Short stories
Contents: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption - Apt pupil - The body - The breathing method.
A teenager makes the acquaintance of a Nazi war criminal hiding out in a suburban community and becomes his 'pupil', promising to remain silent if the old German speaks of the atrocities committed in the concentration camps.