Hitler’s Silver Box is a real page-turner, full of suspense, drama, and intrigue. The most frightening aspect of the novel is its plausibility. A prison inmate, in one of Hitler’s concentration camps, is forced to make a box of silver, using the fillings from prisoners’ teeth. As horrendous as that sounds, the purpose for the silver box is more horrifying.
As the prisoner escapes the camp, he takes with him the silver box and buries it along his escape route.
Fifty years later, people are searching for the silver box and will stop at nothing to discover its hiding place. Each chapter begins with a line or two from the inmate’s journal, thus connecting the events of 1944 with the present-day search for the box.
Fast-paced and well-written, Allen Malnak’s thriller keeps the reader on the edge of his/her seat.
Fiction
Hitler’s Silver Box: A Novel
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– April 23, 2012
Mimi Frank is the secretary of the Jewish Book Council.
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