The Chemist's Shop: A Tale of Revenge
by Richard BrumerPublish: Mar 10, 2017Suspense Historical FictionBook Overview
Auschwitz survivor Miklos Rosen could do nothing but watch as his three young daughters were led to the crematory, or to prevent his wife from committing suicide while also inside the extermination camp with him. Feeling as though he had killed his family himself, for the past 25 years pharmacology professor Miklos Rosen, now living under the name Michael Ross and the proprietor of a pharmacy in upstate New York, has carried this festering wound inside his soul.Time has heightened rather than diminished his anguish when cruel fate once again crosses his path. The SS Officer whom Ross had watched guide his daughters to the "showers" is now at his counter, awaiting a prescription. Michael's opportunity for the requital he has always sought is standing right in front of him, and it's just a matter of how he chooses to exact his retribution. Remembering that this Nazi liked chess, he decides on a series of matches between the two of them, games with consequences beyond what Michael could ever foresee. THE CHEMIST'S SHOP is not so much a picture of obsession as it is the portrait of a man's love for his family and for letting this paternal passion consume his life. It's impossible to say how anyone would react under similar circumstances, but each reader of THE CHEMIST'S SHOP will be forced to make a decision, as if Miklos Rosen. Which direction to take is the burden THE CHEMIST'S SHOP places on the reader, as every choice fans the smoldering ashes the Holocaust has left for society to agonize over forever. (Now available as audio book--Paperback and e-book)
