{"product_id":"2940149238354","title":"ONLY THE DEAD CAN TALK","description":"A fast-read action thriller, ONLY THE DEAD CAN TALK seems to float into view like a mirage of a World War II ghost ship.  Set largely in London, with an international background.  That same city where serial murder reached its world apogee in the  days of Jack the Ripper.  Still not solved 150 years later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr Rutt, the gray eminence of ONLY THE DEAD CAN TALK, escaped from the Nazi Doctors Trials.  Here he experimented on humans.  He has lived in hiding for 50 years, mainly in Chile.  By no means a mad scientist, but a man without a soul.  Supported by his wealthy family and Nazi pension checks.  By accident, he is accidentally arrested in London, and a new trial is set.  But his strnage-looking twin bodyguards are set free.  A little apish and a lot athletic, they have soulless faces with little expression.  They get hold of the short witness list of Rutt survivors and set about shortening it.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Golden Boy from California and a female ex-soldier sharpshooter from Israel -- both adopted and living almost half a world apart – fly to Lonon to become prime witnesses for the prosecution.  Under British protection.  How could young love blossom in the receding climate of the Holocaust, still resonating in the modern-day air with those most affected?   Yet it does.  While the tabloids have a holiday with Rutt, and compare him and his experiments to Jack the Ripper.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONLY THE DEAD CAN TALK tells how two lively sophomores, by purest chance, meet under dire circumstances and fall in love, in the very shadow of death.  Even as they step together a little blindly into serial murders and deep danger to themselves.  And how the young Californian, once called \"Silly Willy\" in his childhood, rose to the occasion and swam the swim of a lifetime in the French part of the English Channel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis novel’s long-escaped Nazi experimenter on humans comes in the end to be rejected by his family in a London telephone booth as he clutches his neo-Nazi electronic Catch Anne Frank game, as if it were among the last true remnants of Hitler’s dream.  In this sense, ONLY THE DEAD CAN TALK is also a literary psychological novel.  Of Jack-the-Ripper extreme compassion deficit.  In true literary style, it not only describes the actions of the characters, but their thoughts.  Even to those of one of Rutt's two bodyguards, whom the tabloids have labeled \"Frankenmen\" for their expressionless looks and the possibility that Rutt had played a hand in tweaking their rNA.  In this sense, Rutt and his 3 \"adopted\" children are an irreducible essence of a post-Holocaust reflection of the Holocaust.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alfred Sundel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111779156208,"sku":"2940149238354","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149238354_p0.jpg?v=1763714420","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149238354","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}