Ingrid E. Pfeiffer

Ingrid Pfeiffer was born in Viareggio, Italy, in 1948.

Her book, Broken Threads, tells the story of her family.

Her mother was Italian, and the daughter of a wealthy fascist merchant who, brainwashed by the doctrines of Hitler and Mussolini, aspired to be the next great dictator, while his own wife and daughter were Partisans, secretly helping several Italian Jews escape.

Ingrid's father was an American soldier, and an under-cover secret service agent, assigned to put an end to the new surge of neo-fascism.

Her parents had met shortly after the end of WWII and were married in September 1947. Three months after the wedding, the soldier mysteriously disappeared. Ingrid found her father's whereabouts by happenstance while she was already an adult.

Although some of the names and events were changed for fictional purposes her story is based on true events.