Fear Itself

1943. All over Europe, millions of Jews are being murdered, yet not a single American plane flies over the death camps.Niccolo Levi is an Italian, an actor and a Jew. He is robbed by the SS of his young wife and child, only to be reunited with them in the hell of Europe's most infamous concentration camp. His family is destroyed as he watches.When Niccolo manages a last-minute escape, it is with one motive vengeance--on Germany, of course, but also on America which, through indifference, has condemned Niccolo's family and some six million others.Carl Berlin is also a Jew, living in New York City, working at a desk job for the Office of Strategic Services, tracking the comings and goings of minor Nazi agents. Carl suddenly becomes aware of a potential killer far more dangerous than any he has dealt Niccolo Levi.Elusive, brilliant, half-mad, the actor makes his way from war-scarred Europe to the United States--even to Hollywood, where for a time he befriends Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre--before he zeroes in on his main target.For in Niccolo's mind, Frankin Delano Roosevelt is the living symbol of Americanapathy toward Hitler's victims, and this breathtaking novel's Third Man. Sympathetic to the plight of his fellow Jews, Carl realizes he has no choice but to find and stop the well-armed assassin. The trouble is, Niccolo's theatrical training helps him assume many disguises as he makes his way undiscovered to Washington D.C.... "A real novel masking as a thriller." NY Times.