Three Religions, One Killer

The sporty twelve-year-old David Kerzner dreams of a future in which he develops the wooden box with a glass eye into what we now know as the modern television. It is 1938. At that time, his father takes him from Boston to Amsterdam, despite the growing threat of World War II. His father's more experienced business partner, a Muslim Palestinian, wisely flees Europe for Boston.

In Amsterdam, the Nazi traitor Corbijn steals all the possessions of the Kerzner family. After the war, Corbijn uses...