By M.K.

Anyone with interest in the history immediately preceding the Second World War and a liking for the magic of a good old mystery should read this book.

The historical drama surrounding the lives of certain races of people and a bit of the pity the story creates along with a mystery that takes place in different eras makes for one of those prosaic you won't be able to put it down type of read.

The novel travels in time from the year 2000 in the suburban Town of Westfield, NJ to the 1930s in tough Brooklyn, NY and the intelligentsia of the University in Princeton, NJ, with sidings to the Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland, to Chicago for the ramblings of a mad priest, Father Coughlin, to the piers in Havana for the ship the St Louis, laden with its doomed cargo of Jewish passengers and to the Japanese internments of California.