![]() ![]() ![]() When he and Jack eventually meet, the two draw on their mutual grief and hopefulness to hatch a fantastical scheme - one meant to bring doomed children out of Europe via submarine. ![]() He watches as both his country and his relationship come apart, and reaches America determined to make an impact back home. His journey from the innocent view of a child to the complex, oftentimes dark view of the adult world is an emotional one.Ī Jew having fled Berlin, Jakob spent his life fixing things until encountering the only one he couldn’t - his beloved Rebecca’s weakening heart. His sometimes charming, sometimes irritating naivety is the reader’s rudder for the majority of the book as he strives to navigate the changes in his life and his city. ![]() Jack, an idealistic boy from NYC and the book’s primary narrator, is coping with the loss of his eyesight and his father by searching for Nazis with his code-o-graph. In this latest work, set in 1942 Manhattan and pre-World War II Berlin, we follow the converging stories of Jack and Jakob as they seek to make a difference in the world. A Lincoln, Janis Cooke Newman immerses readers in a particular time period. In A Master Plan for Rescue, as in her first historical-fiction novel, Mary: Mrs. ![]()
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