A Mysterious Review of Moving Day by Jonathan Stone.
Review summary: This isn't really a thriller in the sense that nearly everything that happens can readily be predicted, and what does happen isn't all that exciting. Instead, it is more of a metaphorical novel, one that is relatively slow-paced if also rich in meaning; an action-packed thrill ride it most certainly is not. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Moving Day
Jonathan Stone
Thomas & Mercer (June 2014)
Publisher synopsis: Forty years' accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke — they 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 Peke's 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 Peke — who survived, came to America, and succeeded — must 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 Peke's brutal, unresolved past.
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