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Germany, 1938. Franz Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank in a provincial city. His employers have a prestigious new client, the Nazi party, and Schmidt will oversee the account. Soon, he is embroiled in the duplicity, violence, and horror that is Nazi Germany. Schmidt finds himself caught up in dangerous political machinations and, as the result of an act of compassion, under deadly suspicion. As events spin out of control, he has no choice but to act-quickly and decisively. In Eye of the Abyss, Marshall Browne steps out of series fiction to deliver an intelligent historical thriller reminiscent of Philip Kerr, Christopher Reich, and Alan Furst. ... Read more

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Truly Frightening, 1938 Germany Parallels 2010 USA
Writing a novel is like a document of consciousnes, and since conscious today USA, is not like the conscious of Germany's Weimar Republic of 1938, can we have a truly realistic novel of the times? Unfortunately, today USA is very much like the early Weimar Republic. The Reichstag Fire is like September 11th. The laws of The Patriot Act are like the laws & practices being implemented in Hitler's early Germany for their Homeland Security. Their special channel(s) is a phrase not only becomming familiar with the Herr Franz Schmidt of 1938, but those today familiar with the official lies leading the USA into Iraq & Afghanistan.
Still, the above is all but background to the real story being told: THE STEALING FROM THE BANKS BY THE NAZI PARTY.
I couldn't help but think, as I was reading this novel, about the crooked members of the Republican Party of Bush(Savings & Loan, the elder/Treasury, the younger) and the subsequent crooks of the Obama Democratic Party(Larry Summers, Henry Paulson, etc.).
In the novel there are a few good people who try to put the criminal Nazis at task & at each others throats, to foil some of their vast looting enterprises. I'd like to think their are some Franz Schmidts today in our mists, working to bring current criminals, not only to light, but to jail. So far, we've bailed out the crooks & given them billions of dollars in bonuses.
At least in 1938, a few of the criminal came to their judgement day.
So, in short, reading this novel was like reading a parallel 1938/2010 looting extravaganza(imagination?).
One story has been told, the looting of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
Still, I can't wait for the parallel/other to end.
Either they will stop stealing & looting, or like Russia, an end...?

P.S. google: Keiser Report 68: Aug 12, 2010

exhilarating historical tale
In 1938 Nazi Germany Franz Schmidt has a good life.He is happily married to Helga and they have a delightful four year old daughter.He works as the chief internal auditor at Banhaus Wertham & Co. where he is very highly regarded by the Werthan family that owns the bank.Franz feels pretty good about himself also since he stepped in to defend a Jew attacked by Nazis three years ago at the cost of an eye though he swears he holds no grudges against the Nazis.

Franz's life changes when the Nazi Party deposits large sums of cash at Banhaus Wertham & Co. with the demand that anyone with the slightest Jewish blood be fired as the law states.Half-Jewish Fraulein Dressler, competent secretary to the bank's general director, will have to be released.Upset over the injustice, Franz decides to help Dressler while plotting to castigate Herr Dietrich, the Nazi mole just put inside the bank.Though the price of being caught could reach his beloved family, inactivity would cost Franz much more.

This is an exhilarating historical tale that takes the reader back to a highly volatile and dangerous time to be a freedom lover.The story line is fantastic as it moves rather quickly forward yet provides fully developed characters whose behavior especially reactions during crisis are brilliantly rendered.However, the key to Marshall Browne's tale is Nazi Germany on the brink of World War II that comes so alive.Author of the well written police Inspector Anders tales Mr. Browne's latest work will be on everyone's short list for the genre's best novel of the year.

Harriet Klausner

A tense test of character in Nazi Germany
In the foreboding atmosphere of 1938 Germany, Franz Schmidt is a quiet, contented family man, proud of his Teutonic heritage, and chief auditor at Wertheim's, a venerable commercial bank that has just landed a major Nazi Party account. He's also a man who lost an eye three years earlier defending a Jew.

As in Australian author Browne's Italian Inspector Anders novels ("Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools," "The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders") the pace is deliberate, the protagonist deliberating. The tension builds by increments as the enormity of the bank's move into Nazi business becomes clear to the hapless bankers.

Nazi functionary Dietrich, attached to the bank, quickly homes in on Lilli Dressler, the director's Jewish secretary. As Jews have been barred from banking, Dietrich arranges to have the Gestapo arrest her. Schmidt and Lilli's boss separately attempt to save her, and when their illegal efforts fail, Dietrich is exultant. Magnanimously sparing the men from prosecution, Dietrich has them where he wants them.

In chilling increments it becomes clear that every aspect of privacy - from phone lines to family relationships, personal friendships and private histories - is compromised. Dietrich seems omnipresent. Heartsick, Schmidt's resolution hardens into a daring plan of heroism and revenge.

Browne has captured the Nazis' fanatical mania for control, their mastery of detail and intimidation, their paranoia and arrogance. Schmidt's complexities reveal a tangle of motivations, not all of which he understands, or admires in himself. Events build, from the first slow tightening of the noose to a choking breathlessness. A masterful thriller, as intelligent as it is dark. ... Read more

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Chapters: Hungarian Classical Cellists, Franz Schmidt, David Popper, János Starker, Laszlo Varga, Gábor Rejtő, Andor Toth, Jr., András Fejér, Mirko Dorner, Géza Allaga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Franz Schmidt (December 22, 1874 February 11, 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist. Schmidt was born in Pressburg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (this is now Bratislava, Slovakia). His earliest teacher was his mother, an accomplished pianist, who gave him a systematic instruction in the keyboard works of J. S. Bach. He received a thorough foundation in theory from brother Felizian Moczik, the outstanding organist at the Franciscan church in Pressburg. He studied piano briefly with Theodor Leschetizky, with whom he clashed. He moved to Vienna with his family in 1888, and studied at the Vienna Conservatory (composition with Robert Fuchs, cello with Ferdinand Hellmesberger and theory (the counterpoint class) with Anton Bruckner), graduating "with excellence" in 1896. He beat 13 other applicants in obtaining a post as cellist with the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra, with whom he played, often under Mahler, until 1914. Mahler habitually had all the cello solos played by Schmidt, even though Friedrich Buxbaum was actually the principal cellist. Schmidt was also in demand as a chamber musician, playing in the string quartet led by Arnold Schoenbergs close friend Oskar Adler, who also became Schmidts doctor: Schmidt and Schoenberg maintained cordial relations despite their vast differences in style. In 1914 he took up a professorship (in piano) at the Vienna Conservatory, which had been recently renamed to Imperial Academy of Music and the Performing Arts. In 1925 he became Director of the Academy, and from 1927 to 1931 Rector. As teacher for...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11768 ... Read more

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