Max Bader

During the Great Depression, after a critically-acclaimed debut concert, the 16-year-old piano prodigy, Max Bader, leaves New York City and hitchhikes into the South, searching for the father he’s never met, and encounters racism and forbidden love.

This second novel in the Max Bader series finds Max and friends in New York accidentally drawn into the investigation of heroin trafficking, child prostitution, and murder in a corrupt Manhattan Police Department, an indifferent Catholic Church, and a university hospital complicit in the crimes. Confronted with overwhelming odds and with few people they can trust, dare they seek justice?

After escaping the sanitarium, Father Bruno begins a terrifying odyssey to discover why Jews are leaving Germany. He finds the answer in the unspeakable cruelty of Hitler’s empire.