Diagnosed with cancer, Alex Glauberman feels he has little to lose and accepts a mysterious mission to deliver a package, which he then must race against time to retrieve before it can reach its destination

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In this appealingly quirky mystery debut, Alex Glauberman is not your everyday hero: he's a Jewish mechanic who repairs German cars. He also has nodular lymphoma, a form of cancer, which is currently in remission, but the treatment causes violent mood swings. At the post office one day, a stranger asks Alex to mail a package to Germany, then leaves abruptly. Intrigued by the man's mysterious behavior, more than a little high from the medication, Alex follows his own "curious, romantic feeling that fate had just beckoned in his direction." Ingeniously, he sets up a meeting with "G. Meyer"the sender's name on the parcelwho proposes that Alex travel to Germany, via London, to retrieve the package from Meyer's estranged, half-Jewish, half-German daughter. Alex temporizes, but when he finds Meyer's body in an alley and receives the dead man's posthumous payment, he feels morally bound to Meyer's request. Despite threats from unknown enemies and warnings from friends, Alex recklessly pursues the clues that Meyer inadvertently gave him. Cluster's evident knowledge of the locales (Boston, London, Berlin) and his engagingly offbeat characters mark him as a writer to watch.
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