Moving Day : a thriller

When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Stanley Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades ago, as a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz, he eked out a desperate existence in the war-torn Polish countryside, subsisting on scraps and dodging Nazi soldiers. Now, the seventy-two-year-old Peke must summon his original grit...