Edoardo Ballerini
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"February, 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In New York City, twenty-two thousand cheering Nazi supporters pack Madison Square Garden for a raucous, hate-filled rally. In a Hell's Kitchen bar, Charles Mossman is reeling from the loss of his job and the demise of his marriage when a group draped in Nazi flags barges in. Drunk, Charlie takes a swing at one with tragic results and a torrent of unintended consequences follows. Two years later....
2) Button man
Author
Language
English
Description
A gut-wrenching, noirish historical novel of Jewish organized crime and labor unions in 1930s New York. The author immerses readers in a maze of labor racketeering and political and police corruption, upping the suspense chapter by chapter. The narrative follows Morris and Sol Rabishevsky, brothers striving to stay afloat in their garment business while fighting union takeovers and price control by criminal organizations. Meanwhile, Harry, the other...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts."—Booklist (starred review)
"Heart-pounding...This is Gross's best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on
4) The saboteur
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kurt Nordstrum, an engineer in Oslo, puts his life aside to take up arms against the Germans as part of the Norwegian resistance. After the loss of his fiancée, his outfit whittled to shreds, he commandeers a coastal steamer and escapes to England to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis's progress towards an atomic bomb at an isolated factory in Norway. There, he joins a team of dedicated Norwegians in training in the Scottish Highlands for a mission...