Kiss of the Prison Dancer

Max Friedman, a concentration camp survivor, goes for a walk one night in Golden Gate Park. There is a noise and then a young man leaps out of the bushes, stares at Max a moment, and runs away. The next day, Max reads in the paper that a girl has been raped and killed in the park. Soon, a man is arrested for the crime. The suspect is a neo-Nazi, but he is not the young man Max saw in the park. All his life Max lived by the motto: Mind your own business. His wife Sarah, who did not survive the camps, used to chide him about it. So he tries to ignore the case even though he knows the accused man is innocent. The man, after all, is a Nazi. Besides, Max meets a woman at the social service agency where he works and he doesn't want anything to interfere with his new relationship. But Sarah will not leave him alone. And neither will Shmuel, another survivor, who has a way of reminding Max of a past he would rather forget. As the story shifts between San Francisco in the 1970s and Germany in the 1930s, The Kiss of the Prison Dancer explores the life of a man trapped in a moral dilemma. This compelling and controversial novel will have readers asking themselves what they would do under similar circumstances.Richard, Jerome is the author of 'Kiss of the Prison Dancer', published 2004 under ISBN 9781579621025 and ISBN 1579621023.