Untitled Robert Lautner

by Robert Lautner

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  ‘To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.’

  Ernest Becker

  Acknowledgements

  I’d like to thank my agent, James Gill, through what turned out to be a long path to publication. During that time there were shifts and changes of supporters and editors and I was sorry to see them go and move on but I’m grateful to them all especially Katie Espiner and Cassie Browne. Many thanks to Charlotte Cray at the Borough Press and Holly Ainley for taking the helm through to the end.

  I’m glad that I can look back on this work a couple of years since writing as at the time there had to be a detachment to the narrative that did not prove to be an easy one to research and it was impossible to not trawl through a wide amount of unsettling material to try and pin down facts and story possibilities without becoming affected by it but I’m grateful to the following (and others too numerous) for their information:

  The Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation, The Tiergarten 4 Association, and The Engineers of “The Final Solution”. Topf and Sons – Builders of The Auschwitz Ovens exhibition, Erfurt.

  Robert Lautner

  October 2016

  About the Author

  Robert Lautner was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children.

  Also by Robert Lautner

  The Road to Reckoning

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