Unspeakable Prayers

by John Ellsworth

Overview

Even though he escaped, he was never truly free. In occupied Poland, there are whispers of a terrifying darkness in the northern forests. When a young Lodzi Ashstein learns the horrifying truth about the Treblinka extermination camp, he is kidnapped and tormented by a senior SS officer, Janich Heiss. After a prisoner uprising, Heiss disappears into the woods and Lodzi is left with nothing but his nightmares and the eternal scars of a survivor.More than 70 years later, Heiss has been mysteriously murdered, and Lodzi is accused of a crime of revenge. When attorney Thaddeus Murfee takes the case to trial, he unearths a startling trove of evidence that has the power to change everything. But can he bring the truth to light in time to save Lodzi from another nightmare?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781507790823
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/27/2015
Series:	Historical Thrillers of John Ellsworth , #2
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

John Ellsworth is from Arizona and practiced law nationwide. For thirty years he defended criminal clients across the United States. His first book, "The Defendants," was published by Amazon and Subjudica House Press on January 20, 2014.

What's next? UNSPEAKABLE PRAYERS is John's seventh Thaddeus book and will be published by Amazon in January 2015. It is the story of a nineteen year-old Lodzi Ashstein taken to Treblinka in 1942 and forced by the Nazis to help destroy Jews. Later in life a crime occurs when the captain of the SS Nazi guards is murdered. The Holocaust survivor Lodzi is charged with the murder and a trial ensues. It's a full-bodied read with the great interlocking plot structure my readers have to come to expect and that they tell me they love. "You will never forget Lodzi, I promise you. And you will never forget the intense history found in his story."

"I love writing these books.They are the kinds of books I love to read, full of information about a wide spectrum of characters, lots of dialogue, and, as always, plenty of action and traps for the young attorney. The books represent the kind of learning experience I went through when I was Thaddeus' age and learning how to patty-cake when it came to doing the right thing for clients."

Table of Contents

Epigraph

Book One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Book Two

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Book Three

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Book Four

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

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Editorial Reviews

"Where to begin? I guess the easiest is to say that this is the best thing this author has written and I love all his work. It is radically different than the previous books and while loosely still a legal thriller, that is really a sub-plot to the main story. The meat of the book is the redemption of some and the condemnation of others or, in more Biblical terms - evil looses in the end."

"Wow! Now that Poland has made their complicity in the Nazi genocide a forbidden topic, we need a powerful reminder of those times. Unspeakable Prayers is one. Although it's fiction, it's one of the best depictions of that era and the suffering I've read. I like the fact that the story continues into the present, and that justice served very cold can still be a triumph.
I love John Ellsworth, his writing is wonderful, and although I can't pick a favorite among his work, this one is probably his most powerful."

"This is a wonderful fictional story.It's heart-rending & terrifying in its depiction of the inhumane brutality & depravity in the extermination camp called Treblinka. I kept asking myself "How could they do that? How could they justify their actions in their own minds?" The part concerning Treblinka was difficult to read, but I persevered."

"John Elsworth does a marvelous job of detailing the horrors of the German Nazi concentration camps by relation of a story of two survivors and how they did it. This is very graphic and should be known. The horror is followed by the trek to America and the struggle to obtain independence and make their lives worthwhile., The villain is the Commander of the camp who escaped to America and the heroes find him to attempt to reckon with him, It is a fantastic read that I read on my Kindle form Amazon. I really enjoyed this one."

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