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For readers of David Grann, Janet Malcolm, and Jon Ronson — a riveting work of narrative nonfiction about obsession, conspiracy, and the seductive power of a good story, following a Montreal lawyer's quixotic hunt for Nazi gold, the filmmaker who tried to capture his unraveling, and the...

Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.”  A surprise discovery leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder.