Timothy B. Benford

Christmas Eve, 1944. The Ardennes Forest was thick with blood as the Battle of The Bulge raged on. But in the midst of combat, two hundred troops—Americans and Germans alike—abruptly ceased fighting each other and united to face one common, and unspeakable, enemy. Only two men survived.

Now, more than five decades later, one still remains institutionalized and unable, or unwilling, to speak. Then, suddenly, he begins to rant, shrieking in terror about unmentionable horror in the Ardennes… pray that somebody listens!… (mehr)

John E. List was described as soft-spoken, brainy, timid, intellectual, shy, conservative, introverted, a neatnik, organized, and frugal. Fellow church goers remembered him as deeply religious. On November 9, 1971 John List killed his family. Then he disappeared. Family members said he most likely had committed suicide because he could not live with the guilt. They were wrong. It was almost 20 years before he was found and brought to justice. In those 20 years he created a new life for himself.

Through research and extensive interviews with all involved, Benford and Johnson take us through John's childhood, his unhappy marriage, the steps he took to escape Westfield and create a new identity for himself and how he was finally brought to justice.

This is well written, never boring account of what could be New Jerseys most famous crime.… (mehr)

This election year thriller was written two years before the first woman ran on major ticket in a Presidential election. It received the West Coast Review of Books' Porgie' Award as one of the three best original novels of the year and a decade later was made into a TV Movie of The Week. On a dark night in May 1945, a pregnant woman is spirited out of Nazi Germany. Then, 36 years later, proof has been found by a White House aide that the central architect of the resurgence of neo-Nazism in the United States is Hitler's Daughter. She could be any one of three powerful women close to the White House.… (mehr)