First published 2014
Jacob Weisz watches his beloved Germany transform under Nazi rule. Jews like Jacob and his family face brutal persecution as Hitler's regime tightens its grip. After violence destroys his world during one horrific night, Jacob escapes and joins underground rebels fighting the Nazi machine. Their resistance mission goes disastrously wrong. Jacob ends up crammed into a fetid train car bound for Auschwitz death camp. Inside the camp's walls, Jacob confronts Hitler's "final solution" to eliminate all Jewish people. He must use every ounce of cunning to break free from this nightmare. The world needs to know what the Nazis are doing before fascism consumes all of Europe. Jacob questions whether God exists, yet he may need faith to survive. Millions of lives depend on his escape.
Genres: holocaust, historical-fiction, war, adventure
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: faith, survival
Setting: Germany, Europe, Auschwitz
Period: 20th-century, world-war-ii
480 pages · Hardcover · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Content warnings: violence