Last Jew in Prague (#2)
Struggling to survive a freezing, rainy night in the desert, a homeless man recalls what his grandfather struggled to survive many years earlier and how his connection to this upended his own life.
Hermann Weiss was the best police detective in Prague’s Jewish district of Josefov until the Nazis occupy the city and deport its Jews and he finds himself in Theresienstadt concentration camp waiting his turn to die. One night, he receives a visit from an SS captain named Klaus Stamm, who’d been his friend in college before their falling out over Hermann’s future wife Ana. Klaus offers Hermann his freedom if he can discover who murdered three SS officers found near synagogues in Josefov, and he threatens to shoot him if he refuses.
Not believing the offer and reeling from the recent loss of Ana, Hermann only agrees to help because of a promise that he’d made to her. But as he delves into the case, he feels it’s leading him somewhere and becomes driven to solve it. The two men, in spite of tensions threatening to boil over, uncover the pursuit of a mysterious treasure hidden beneath the synagogues. Which leads them toward both the killer and Hermann’s fate.
Last Jew in Prague is a novel about lifting yourself up when all you want to do is keep falling.
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All the Beautiful Words (#1)
A homeless man’s altercation on a desert bus reveals an obscure book of Czech poetry and a mystery relating to it and his grandfather from eighty years earlier in Nazi-occupied Prague.
Hermann Weiss is a former police detective waiting for his inevitable deportation and likely death when he stumbles upon a suicide that may not be a suicide. Can he find the motivation to solve this one last case?
“All the Beautiful Words” is a short story about desperation and aspiration and how the two can entwine.
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The Chanukah Gift (#3)
On a Chanukah in a windswept desert, a homeless man receives a series of letters postmarked thirty-five years earlier. Inside them are journal entries that he reads over the phone to his estranged twin Rudi. They come from a dying eighteen year old named Yon who changed both their lives in the early 1980s and will do so a second time, through the telling of a secret Chanukah gift he got. One that returns him to before he met Rudi, where he can avoid the event that will trigger his death by not falling in love with her.
This should be easy. Yon can’t recall Rudi beyond a few minutes that he supposes was a dream, and he has looks, wealth, and a bright future while she’s a troubled punk with no future at all. But he can’t prevent how this one-woman rollercoaster capsizes him and makes him feel alive. Nor can he shy away from a hate that threatens to destroy her and could do the same to him. Choosing between saving her and himself won’t be easy at all.
The Chanukah Gift is a big, emotional, and uplifting love story. A tearjerker and proud of it.
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