Publisher: Thomas and Merer
Date of publication: June 2014
Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family
photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke—they are proof of a
life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago.
When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a
sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New
England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke’s
past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate
existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps, dodging
Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Peke—who survived, came to
America, and succeeded—must summon his original grit and determination, to
track down the thieves, retrieve his things, and restore the life he made for
himself.
Peke and his wife, Rose, trace the path of the thieves’
truck across America, to the wilds of Montana, and to an ultimate, chilling
confrontation with not only the thieves, but with Peke’s brutal, unresolved
past.
Moving Day was kind of a strange book for me. I'm not sure I really understood the direction for the story. I ended up skimming some of the book. I was expecting a thriller, but the story never became all that thrilling. Essentially, Peke and his wife are robbed. What results is a cross country fight to regain possession.
The way Peke tracks down his stuff was pretty ingenious. So, I did like that part of the plot. I would have been happy for the story to stop there. Maybe this one would have worked better as a novella. I say that because the ending was really strange. Peke kind of goes a little psycho and I'm still not sure I understand why. The book has received some great reviews. I guess I'll have to chalk this one up as being not for me.
The way Peke tracks down his stuff was pretty ingenious. So, I did like that part of the plot. I would have been happy for the story to stop there. Maybe this one would have worked better as a novella. I say that because the ending was really strange. Peke kind of goes a little psycho and I'm still not sure I understand why. The book has received some great reviews. I guess I'll have to chalk this one up as being not for me.
About the author:
Jonathan Stone writes his books on the commuter train from
his home in Connecticut to his advertising job in midtown Manhattan. Honing his
writing skills by creating smart and classic campaigns for high-level brands
such as Mercedes-Benz, Microsoft, and Mitsubishi has paid off, as Stone’s first
mystery-thriller series, the Julian Palmer books, won critical acclaim and was
hailed as “stunning” and “risk-taking” in Publishers Weekly starred
reviews. He earned glowing praise for his novel The Cold Truth from
the New York Times, which called it “bone-chilling.” He’s the
recipient of a Claymore Award for Best Unpublished Crime Novel and a graduate
of Yale, where he was a Scholar of the House in fiction writing.
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