The Ullman Code Author:Robert Bernhard A novel of crackling suspense, ranging from New York to the Greek Islands and the Golan Heights, with its roots in the Nazi savagery of a generation ago. — When Paul Nomberg, former American Spy and brilliant young cryptographer, begins looking for the secret code in the diary of a man who died in the ovens of a death camp near Ausberg, he falls ... more »into a tightening web of terror spun by Israeli intelligence agents and treacherous blackmailers. For Ullman's code, when deciphered, would reveal what really happened when the Twelfth Sonderkommando - that elite group of Jews who fed their own to the furnaces - rebelled and tried to blow up the crematoriums. Using a system based on the Kabbala and on Chinese juxtaposition puzzles, Nomberg cracks the code, revealing not the list of names he expected, but something that immediately marks him as a target for murder.
Based on historical fact - of men fighting to survive in a human incinerator - this suspense puzzle probes the depths of the human spirit as one man struggles to renew his faith in God - and man.« less