The preface of the novel. A novel that you can also read by downloading the free eBook at https://colinjcohen.github.io.

Hermann receives an unexpected guest at Theresienstadt concentration camp.

A young SS officer finds the tables turned on him in a synagogue late at night.

Hermann relives the promise that’s standing between him and death.

Hermann must face the music as he leaves the concentration camp.

Hermann returns to Prague as well as to his first trip there.

A mysterious woman investigates the cause of an open synagogue door at dawn.

Hermann reexperiences his first encounter with Klaus and his first glances of Ana.

A former colleague surprisingly awaits Hermann when he arrives at SS headquarters.

Hermann learns the details about the case and not all of them make sense.

Hermann collects the first clues about the murderer, and he finds leads to some more.

Hermann returns to his old apartment and to memories both good and bad.

Klaus must confront his demons along with both his past and present.

Hermann learns that the Maisel Synagogue has had a visitor overnight.

Hermann meets Klaus’s beguiling Nazi girlfriend Gertrud.

Hermann and Klaus discover clues outside the Spanish Synagogue and follow them.

An encounter with a homeless woman shows there’s more to Gertrud than meets the eye.

Hermann and Klaus find more questions than answers in the Spanish Synagogue.

Hermann and Klaus visit the Klausen synagogue, which has become a Nazi museum.

Hermann returns to his first night with Klaus and Ana.