Forty years accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Pekethey are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago. When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Pekes past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps and dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Pekewho survived, came to America, and succeededmust summon his original grit and determination to track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for himself. Peke and his wife, Rose, trace the path of the thieves truck across America, to the wilds of Montana, and to an ultimate, chilling confrontation with not only the thieves but also with Pekes brutal, unresolved past.
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Publication Date: 01 Jun 2014
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781477818244
About Jonathan Stone
Jonathan Stone writes his books on the commuter train from his home in Connecticut to his advertising job in midtown Manhattan. Honing his writing skills by creating smart and classic campaigns for high-level brands such as Mercedes-Benz Microsoft and Mitsubishi has paid off as Stones first mystery-thriller series the Julian Palmer books won critical acclaim and was hailed as stunning and risk-taking in Publishers Weekly starred reviews. He earned glowing praise for his novel The Cold Truth from the New York Times who called it bone-chilling. Hes the recipient of a Claymore Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel and a graduate of Yale where he was a Scholar of the House in fiction writing.