Moving Day

Stanley Peke has spent forty years gathering art, antiques, and family photographs. To him these belongings are more than possessions. They stand for a life that, decades ago, came close to never happening.

When a swindler disguised as a moving crew empties his New England house in a carefully planned scam, Peke is left wandering the bare rooms, and his thoughts return to an earlier stretch of helplessness. Long before he was Stanley, he was Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz, a boy who survived on scraps in the cold, war-scarred Polish countryside while avoiding German soldiers.

Now seventy-two, Peke has survived the war, reached America, and built a successful life. He must now draw on that same stubborn resolve to find the thieves, recover his possessions, and rebuild what he created.

Peke and his wife, Rose, follow the thieves' truck across the country into Montana, where the chase culminates in a frightening showdown with the criminals and with the brutal, unresolved past Peke has never faced.