Moving Day: A Thriller

Stone, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1477818243 / ISBN 13: 9781477818244

Published by Thomas & Mercer (edition First Paperback Edition), 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Moving Day: A Thriller
• Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (edition First Paperback Edition)
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477818243
• ISBN 13: 9781477818244
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke―they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago.

When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke’s past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps and dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Peke―who survived, came to America, and succeeded―must summon his original grit and determination to track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for himself.

Peke and his wife, Rose, trace the path of the thieves’ truck across America, to the wilds of Montana, and to an ultimate, chilling confrontation with not only the thieves but also with Peke’s brutal, unresolved past.

About the Author

Jonathan Stone writes his books on the commuter train from his home in Connecticut to his advertising job in midtown Manhattan. Honing his writing skills by creating smart and classic campaigns for high-level brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, and Mitsubishi has paid off, as Stone’s first mystery-thriller series, the Julian Palmer books, won critical acclaim and was hailed as “stunning” and “risk-taking” in Publishers Weekly starred reviews. He earned glowing praise for his novel The Cold Truth from the New York Times, who called it “bone-chilling.” He’s the recipient of a Claymore Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel and a graduate of Yale, where he was a Scholar of the House in fiction writing.