Jonathan Freedland

Journalist Madison Webb never thought she would be investigating her own sister’s murder. She uncovers evidence that suggests that Abi was a victim in a series of killings that have been hushed up as part of a major conspiracy. With her life on the line, Madison must give up the story, or face the consequences…

In April 1944 a teenager named Rudolf Vrba was planning a daring and unprecedented escape from Auschwitz. After hiding in a pile of timber planks for three days while 3,000 SS men and their bloodhounds searched for him, Vrba and his fellow escapee Fred Wetzler would eventually cross Nazi-occupied Poland on foot, as penniless fugitives. Their mission: to tell the world the truth of the Final Solution. Vrba would produce from memory a breathtaking report of more than thirty pages revealing the true nature and scale of Auschwitz - a report that would find its way to Roosevelt, Churchill and the Pope, eventually saving over 200,000 Jewish lives. A thrilling history with enormous historical implications, THE ESCAPE ARTIST is the extraordinary story of a complex man who would seek escape again and again: first from Auschwitz, then from his past, even from his own name. 

Jonathan Freedland looks on as his eight-day-old son is about to be circumcised and admitted into the 'Covenant of Abraham'. What gift or burden has he given his son by enlisting him into the Jewish people? Freedland digs deep into his past to find answers to a quintessentially modern dilemma: how to live as a minority in the modern world.