Max Burger’s published book, Even in Death, a mystery/thriller of the Irish Troubles, has received a favorable review from Midwest Book Review.
In addition, an excerpt, “Lost and Found,” from another manuscript by Max Burger, My Father’s Father, for which he is seeking publication, has been published in The Jewish Fiction Journal.
About Even in Death:
After the Dublin car bombings in 1974, Harold Stokes, ME, and his new assistant, Samantha Monaghan, begin the last autopsy of the casualties. This unidentified victim is not an Irishman, but an Israeli, killed by a bullet, not a bomb. Before they can finish their task, the body is stolen. Stokes and Monaghan hunt for the victim, but Stokes is also looking for the killers who caused his wife and daughter’s bombing deaths two years before. In their hunt, he and his impetuous young assistant are enmeshed in a web of IRA and Palestinian arms trades with a terrorist known as the Jackal, the Mossad, more factional killings, and the manipulations of an Irish ex-minister using his power to take advantage of the turmoil.
About Max Burger:
Max Burger was raised in New York City, graduated from NYU and the Medical School of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Dublin. He retired after practicing thirty-eight years as a family physician, primarily in New Jersey, and has been a writer since.
He has published personal interest stories in Medical Economics, JAMA, and AMA News. His novel Even in Death, a mystery/thriller of a 1970s Dublin pathologist searching for a stolen body, was published by Rogue Phoenix Press in December 2023. He has completed another novel, My Father’s Father: A Holocaust Family Saga. The first chapter was published in October 2023 in Embark, a literary magazine. Another excerpt, “Lost and Found,” is in the September 2024 issue of The Jewish Fiction Journal.
