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Mary Lignor

Reviewer Mary Lignor: Mary is a retired librarian, originally from Connecticut but now living in New Mexico. All her life Mary has loved books and has passed this love on to her daughters. Mary started working in a library when her children were young as an Assistant Librarian and ended up as its Director. Her favorite books are suspense, political intrigue and anything involving the World War II era.




 
By Mary Lignor
Published on December 14, 2009
 




Author: Roberto Kusminsky
ISBN: 978-0982144343

I hung on every page from first to last and was not surprised that he came up with a eye-opening ending.  Please do not stop here, Dr. Kusminsky.  The reading public needs books like this

 
 
Author: Roberto Kusminsky
ISBN: 978-0982144343
 

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This wonderful book begins with a prologue taking place in a dense forest in the Province of Misiones, Argentina.  The year is 1960.  A man, Gerhardt Lesser, who has lived in the jungle for many years is about to have his prayers answered.  This man was a master builder in Germany during World War II and a favorite of Hitler himself.  He has worked nearly five years to build this bunker where the Reich could hide artwork that had been stolen from the Jewish people.  As the trucks bearing this treasure started to appear, this man was faced with another person that had come with the stolen artifacts to inspect the hiding place. 

This man, called Ricardo Klement, checked everything out and said to Lesser "You have done good work.  Did you do this alone?"  Lesser replied, "My son helped me but he's not here now.  He will be back to help put everything in place and make a list of all contents."  Lesser was a bit unnerved by the attitude of Klement and wanted to reach his son after he did the inventory.  He had a lot to do and started right away to inventory the artifacts.  Some time later he found out that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann had been captured by Mossad agents. 

He had been living under the alias "Ricardo Klement."  Gerhardt needed to reach his son and tell him but, before he could, one of Ricardo's men appeared to check the inventory.  He tried to run away from Eichmann's man and ran into the bunker, grabbed a couple of pieces of metal and carved on the walls above the various cubicles that were holding the art.  Gerhardt knew that this was the end for him and needed to warn his son.  Gerhardt was attacked and killed by the Nazi.  The Nazi then went to open the containers and opened one after another.  He was very disappointed as the place was empty.
 
And, now the fun begins!!!  We move ahead to the present day in New York City where Dr. Gerson Asher is busy at work at the Lenox Hill Hospital.
Dr. Asher is a prominent New York surgeon and ex-Navy SEAL who spent his adolescent years in the care of his grandfather, Max, who lived in Argentina.  One evening Gerson receives a call from his grandfather who is very frightened and tells him that he is flying into New York from Argentina the next morning.  Gerson sees his grandfather fatally stabbed by two men as he comes through an arrival gate at Kennedy Airport.  Grandfather Max has a letter in his pocket with information that sends Gerson on a dangerous mission, looking for various clues that Max has left for him to unravel.  This search will lead him on a disturbing path from New York to Argentina on the trail of stolen World War II artifacts, war criminals and the killers of his grandfather.  He will get help from Nicole, a geneticist from the NY hospital who is helping to decipher the clues that Max left behind.  Also, a Rabbi's daughter, who works with an organization of Nazi-hunters in Argentina and a couple of Mossad agents are thrown in for good measure.
 
I have to say that my very favorite author in this genre is Jack Higgins but I must admit that, after reading Counsel of the Wicked, Mr. Kusminsky is running a close second.  This is a debut novel.  Mr. or I should say Doctor Kusminsky is a surgeon and he is of Argentinian descent and is an excellent writer of World War II fiction and certainly seems to have done his research well.  I hung on every page from first to last and was not surprised that he came up with a eye-opening ending.  Please do not stop here, Dr. Kusminsky.  The reading public needs books like this.

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