- Bronze Award for Multicultural Fiction in ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards
- Finalist for Genre Fiction in Housatonic Book Awards
- Finalist for Thriller and Suspense in ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards
- Top Ten Best Fiction Books for 2014 by TheLatinoAuthor.com
2014 revised and updated paperback edition: A graduate student at Yale, Helmut Sanchez discovers an ugly truth about his boss, a world-renowned German professor. In a letter written more than fifty years ago, Professor Werner Hopfgartner absolved Austria of any guilt for its participation in the Second World War.
What kind of sick mind would rationalize away the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies and other subversives, Helmut wonders. How can it be that he has been helping, and even admiring, such a person? As the young researcher continues his quest for answers in Austria and Italy, Helmut uncovers even more horrific facts about his boss, which fuels a dangerous obsession for justice. What will Helmut do with the truth he discovers?
But he isn't the only one who hates Hopfgartner. Regina Neumann, a colleague in the department, seeks to nail the aged scholar for his sexual involvement with young co-eds, a sordid practice everyone knows about but ignores. Hopfgartner has also left behind many former lovers and students. Award-winning author Sergio Troncoso has penned a suspenseful novel that explores right and wrong, good and evil, and the murky borders in between.
