Part 1 In the spring of 1943, when the trees outside Budapest were only just beginning to show leaves and the war still had enough distance for some people to...
By the time the coffee pot started shaking in Clara’s hand, she had already learned the most dangerous lesson of captivity, which was that fear did not always arrive like...
The alarm went off just as the cold outside turned deadly. It cut through the Walmart entrance with the kind of sound that made people stop breathing for half a...
Marcus “Thunder” Williams stepped into the St. Augustine Medical Center parking lot at 10:52 on a Chicago night so cold it felt sharpened, and in that first breath of air...
Part 1 Most men in the southern Colorado coalfields learned early that there were two kinds of darkness. There was the darkness underground, the honest darkness, the one that wrapped...
Part 1 The first thing Helen noticed about the clinic was how clean it looked from the street. Not truly clean. Not the kind of clean that came from abundance....
The boy was so still that for one horrible second Hank Atlas Monroe thought he was already gone. What Atlas had heard behind the Prairie Star Travel Mart was not...
The first thing Lily heard that morning was laughter. Not the happy kind that bounced through a school hallway on a spring morning. Not the easy kind that belonged to...
Part 1 At 0400 on 23 March 1943, on the high plateau east of El Guettar in Tunisia, Friedrich Freiherr von Broich sat in his command car and listened to...
Part 1 At 0600 on January 24, 1943, Lieutenant Commander Dudley Morton stood in the cramped conning tower of USS Wahoo and watched a Japanese destroyer swing toward him at...