Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read this amazing book.
I had previously read Andrew Gross' 15 Seconds and really enjoyed the fast-paced thriller. But The One Man is on a whole different level. This book will grip you and not let you go, even after you turn the last page.
The premise takes the thriller genre in a new direction. It's 1944 when Jews are being routinely rounded up and taken to concentration camps in horrifying numbers. A physics professor is taken prisoner, his lifetime work on paper destroyed in front of his eyes, and his wife and daughter taken off for dead. But this is no ordinary professor - he is one of two people in the world with specific knowledge about nuclear fission.
On the other side of the world, Nathan Blum left Poland just before his family was also killed. He now works in Washington DC but his grief and guilt at being free while his family perished pushes him to want to do more with his life. He ends up being selected for a fool's mission - to break into Auschwitz and then break out with the professor.
From then on, this is nothing short of a horrifying glimpse into the horrors of that time period interspersed with an incredible, roller coaster of a thriller. So much to think about in this book - both the depravity and kindness of people, bravery, the importance of just one man in so many different ways.
Do not miss reading this book - it will stay with you long after you have finished. Bravo to the author!
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