Ben Zakkai's coffin

By Harley L. Sachs

Subjects: Parents' and teachers' associations, Investigation, War criminals, Murder, Single mothers, Fiction

Description: Born of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Herman Bachrach insists he has no religion, but he is drawn by circumstance into a holocaust vendetta over gold stolen by a Swiss bank from Jewish depositors. Seduced by a woman who calls herself Diana, no last name, Herman is suspected by detective Sheehan to be her murderer. Someone else wants him dead. His Jewish boss provides him with a lawyer, but sends him to Switzerland to finish the job “Diana” started. It’s an assignment he can’t refuse. The result is an epiphany of identity that changes Herman’s life forever.