Montjoy

“Montjoy” is a book for the current 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 is entrusted to a Jewish professor in England who 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 he left behind. As the professor dives deeper, he discovers the author is not who he seems, and the diary might be a suicide note masking an even greater mystery. This forces the professor to confront his own son’s suicide, a mystery he has never truly solved.