The Ballad of Liberty Siegler: The Sequel to I Am Juden

Stephen Uzzell
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"A timely book which brings the trauma of the war years into 1960s America. A gripping story written with style and pace. An excellent sequel to I Am Juden." Father Edward Lewis, Chaplain to HM the QueenThe Ballad of Liberty Siegler is a New York coming-of-age thriller about a teenager armed with an acoustic guitar who vows to track down her father's gunman.Before everything changed, sixteen-year old Liberty Siegler lived a charmed life. A singer and songwriter, Liberty's pop group The Fountain of Youth are stars of New York's folk music scene and friends with a young Bob Dylan. But on Sunday April 9th 1961, the parks of Greenwich Village become a battleground as musicians and police clash in the infamous 'Beatnik Riot'. The Civil Rights movement is born. That same fateful afternoon, Liberty's father Jozef is critically injured in a mysterious shooting. Past and present collide as Liberty slowly uncovers the truth of Jozef Siegler's former life as an undercover Nazi in Krakow. Against a fraught backdrop of civil unrest and the Adolf Eichmann trial, Liberty must use this knowledge to identify her father's assassin...
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