Max O'Brien is in a race against time … and someone else's past is catching up with him. Max O'Brien may be a professional con man, but that doesn't mean you can't count on him in a bind. So when he hears that his old friend Kevin Dandurand is a wanted man over a seemingly racially motivated killing spree, he heads to Bucharest to try to make sense of what looks like an impossible situation. The buried truths he uncovers reach back to the Second World War, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and an entanglement between a Roma man and a German woman whose echoes pursue O'Brien and Dandurand into the present day. But if they can't escape the long shadows of the past, the two will find their present cut all too short.
"Displaying a lively curiosity for Romanian history and contemporary life in Bucharest, Bolduc weaves seemingly disparate plot threads into a twisted yet coherent yarn."
Kirkus Reviews
"Will appeal to readers who like to have their history lessons wrapped in a good yarn."
Publishers Weekly
"A serious story told with a light touch - the lively dialogue and characterizations counterbalance the weighty subject matter - that should appeal to most historical-mystery readers."
