Time of Reckoning by the late Walter Wager (
Wikipedia), who's had a number of his works adapted to films you may or may not have seen (you've probably seen some installment of the
Die Hard franchise), is his vintage psychological thriller with both action-adventure and murder mystery elements, tandemly starring a young man who's Seen Too Much® as the witness of a Holocaust death camp and a government agent who Sees Too Much® while investigating the murders of former Nazis, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are e-printing it from its 1977 Playboy Press edition.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
iTunes (available to Canadians and many places worldwide, as Diversion freebies often are).
And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.
Because I'm a sucker for bipartite parallel character tales, as well as stuff that explores the non-military societal fallout of WWII and this looks like an interesting one by a talented author (or at least one who's written novels that got turned into popular films) that tries to explore and find insight into the characters affected by it, in addition to providing a thrilling action story, brought back into e-print by a publisher who generously offers them (mostly) worldwide.
Enjoy!
Description
Some wars never end, and some never should.
Ernest Beller stands at the end of a giant pit, watching as the Americans who liberated Dachau are trying to bury the countless bodies they have found. Nine years later, Beller still sees those bodies, and the guilty men who got away.
An intricate psychological thriller, Walter Wager’s stunning novel explores the nature of vengeance, and the corrosive trauma of the Holocaust on generations of men. With a breakneck pace, Wager hits boiling point as a government agent begins investigating the murders of former Nazi’s, and sees the horror and the justice in the worst of acts.