Address Unknown November 7, 2009

What makes a good person do evil things?
When Address Unknown was first published as a novella in 1938, the New York Times called it the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction.
Set in 1932, Address Unknown chronicles the friendship between two business partners in a successful San Francisco gallery. Martin Schulse, a German-born Aryan, has returned to Germany with his wife and children and re-established ties to his homeland, becoming active with the national Socialists; Max Eisenstein, a German Jew, has remained to run the gallery in San Francisco.
Letters between the two men reveal the ideological divide between the former friends/partners and the truth about Germany’s new order. Under the influence of Nazism, Schulse commits a cowardly act of betrayal. His former friend exacts an ingenious and deadly revenge.