{"product_id":"the-mechanic-by-alan-gold-9781631580857","title":"The Mechanic","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA story of justice through the ages . . . and revenge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGermany, 1945. The bloodiest war in history is at an end. Now the retribution and search for justice begins. In a series of Nuremberg trials, war criminals are hanged or commit suicide. Others are judged and sent to prison for their part in the most heinous crimes of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut in the final trial, one in which ordinary Germans are forced to confront their complicity, a leading American defence counsellor has to consider questions of good and evil when he defends a simple mechanic, a man who kept the gas chambers in working order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs his trial progresses, Wilhelm Deutch, a Nazi mechanic within the concentration camps, is forced by a court to confront his past with nobody to speak on his behalf. Only one man, Joachim Gutman, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz—a living hell, the worst of all the concentration camps—knows the truth. Gutman knows that Deutch was a life-saving hero, not another sadistic villain that those who barely survived the camps claim him to be at the trial. To save Deutch from a certain-death sentence, Gutman must come forward to testify on his behalf, but he's nowhere to be found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd half a century later, it falls to the defence counsellor's granddaughter, a young and brilliant lawyer, to correct a grievous miscarriage of justice and ease the moral conscience of Germany. But has there been a miscarriage of justice? As she delves deeper into the evil Nazi past, she is faced with a conundrum that threatens her very sanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mechanic\u003c\/em\u003e by Alan Gold is a gripping tale that challenges perceptions of justice and morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428290248940,"sku":"9781631580857","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781631580857.jpg?v=1774497179","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-mechanic-by-alan-gold-9781631580857","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}