Saturday Spotlight

Ronald Balson is one of my favorite authors, and I have read all his books. He has a way of combining the past with the present to create a legal thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat, while adding characters full of heart who are willing to put themselves on the line to help others.

𝗔 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗲

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: Theodore “Teddy” Hartigan is the scion of a wealthy Washington, D.C. family who place him into a comfortable job at the State Department and a placid diplomat’s career. In 1938, as Hitler’s inexorable rise continues, Teddy is re-assigned to the US Consulate in Amsterdam to replace fleeing staff.

Teddy’s job is to process visa applications, and by 1939, refugees from Nazi-conquered Poland, Austria, and other countries are desperate to secure safe passage to America. As Hitler sweeps through France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, and Holland, the screws tighten and law after virulent law is passed to threaten the lives, indeed the very existence of the Jewish people. When Teddy and his girlfriend Sara are introduced to an orphaned young girl named Katy, who has been abandoned on the grounds of a nursery school, they agree to adopt her. Teddy comes to realize that he holds the key to saving lives, whether five, fifty, or five hundred―and makes the dangerous and selfless decision to join with underground groups and use his position at the Consulate to rescue those with no other avenue of escape.

Powerful and dramatic, National Jewish Book Award winner Ronald H. Balson’s A Place to Hide explores the deeply-moving actions of an ordinary man who resolves, under perilous circumstances, to make a difference.

💬𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝘂𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴?

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