An old, buried evil rears its ugly head and shows it was never really dead!
99 Sycamore Place has its roots very close to home for NY Times best-selling author, Norman Bogner, and has all the makings of yet another record-breaking best-seller. The inspiration for Bogner’s story emanated from his childhood memories of overheard whispered conversations of torture inflicted on family members by the Nazis that, years later, compelled him to visit the sites where these atrocities took place and pray for the dead.
99 Sycamore Place, while written as fiction, includes many of Bogner’s and his family’s real-life experiences of evil and prejudice, illustrating the very real danger and threats still confronting Jews today from neo-Nazi bands infiltrating this country, and the indifference of law enforcement whose full focus is on Homeland Security.
The plot takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of suspenseful twists and turns and unpredictable love that begins when a concert pianist in Vienna travels to Beverly Hills for her sister’s wedding. Soon after her arrival, when her sister is brutally murdered and branded with a swastika, she becomes increasingly frustrated when police don’t seem to understand the implications. She recruits the help of a man who traveled from Africa to attend the funeral of his aunt – a woman she had lovingly nursed – convincing him to help her bring her sister’s murderer to justice. Their search reveals that other Jewish brides-to-be have been murdered in the same way, leading them to the discovery that a man who was a staunch supporter of Hitler has organized a group of ex-cons, and intends to use her sister’s murder as a model in his malicious plan of genocide against all Jews in America. 99 Sycamore Place, rich with characters that are very real and very believable, has a plot that exposes the evil still existing among us and hopefully will help draw attention to a subject ignored far too long.
After working as an editor in Europe for many years, Bogner worked in television and wrote plays before writing his famous “Seventh Avenue.” He continues to impress readers with his brilliant work, having now sold over twenty-two million books
worldwide.
