Once we were brothers - Ronald H. Balson (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart #1)

THE GRIPPING TALE OF TWO BOYS, ONCE AS CLOSE AS BROTHERS, WHO FIND THEMSELVES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE HOLOCAUST

Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fund-raiser when he is suddenly accused by Ben Solomon and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamość. Although the charges are denounced, his accuser is convinced he is right and engages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice. Solomon reveals that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon’s own family, only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man?

Once We Were Brothers is the compelling tale of two boys and a family who fight to survive in wartorn Poland, and a young love that struggles to endure the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for a moving and powerful tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit.