Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up an unusual passenger: a U.S. POW on the run with an incredible secret. The secret concerns "The Charm School," a vast KGB conspiracy aimed at the U.S.

"A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General, Israel's most controversial leader, who lies dying in a hospital, the only man who knows of the prisoner's existence. From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait...

"Recounts the escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden, by a group of Allied POWs in WWI."--Publisher's description

Twenty-four hours is a lot of time in prison, and here is a moment to moment guide of how each one goes by. --Publisher

While renovating a cabin in the Minnesota woods, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, discovers the skeleton of a Nazi. Her investigation yields the site of a former German POW camp and an intricately designed pattern of clues to a decades-old crime.

Suburban madam Heloise, with no one left to trust, decides to get out of the game when another suburban madam is brutally murdered, forcing her to stay one step ahead of a killer--and the father of her child--who is just as lethal behind bars as he was on the outside.