Montjoy: A Novel in Five Verges

- Kirkus Reviews

Montjoy is a book for the moment, a bold work of fiction about the truth that dies and the lies that live on. When a Nazi diary is found at the Mauthausen Memorial in Austria, it's entrusted to a Jewish professor in England. The professor encounters a fantastic tale of a masked vigilante taking revenge against the Gestapo on the eve of WWII. Written by a camp guard and former detective in the Berlin Criminal Police, the diary describes one man's collision course with history, from the trenches of the Somme to the cabarets of Berlin, to the crematoriums of Mauthausen and the graveyards left behind. As the professor dives deeper, he discovers the author isn't who he seems and the diary might be a suicide note masking an even greater mystery. As a result, the professor must confront his own son's suicide, a mystery he has never been able to solve.

Told in an experimental style that echoes the works of W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair, Montjoy is a chilling story about the ghosts of history and the shadows that linger long after the clock tolls.