The 6th Lamentation
William Brodrick
published 2003
400 pages
After decades in hiding, a suspected Nazi war criminal claims sanctuary at a modern-day monastery in the English countryside. Ordered to investigate the 50-year-old mystery of his crime, an ex-lawyer turned monk is soon immersed in the history of the Nazi occupation of Paris and the deportation of French Jews to the death camps. In a second narrative thread, an aging woman sees a wartime-era picture of the war criminal on television and is cast back to occupied Paris and her role in the Round Table, a group of students who attempted to rescue thousands of Jewish children.
