Marshall McLuhan, author of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends that the reader turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like that page, then you should absolutely buy the book. It works!
Margi applied the Page 69 Test to the Village of Scoundrels, and reported the following:
Page 69 of Village of Scoundrels is in the middle of a very tense scene in which one of the character’s mother is about to be deported from a French internment camp to Poland (to Auschwitz, but they don’t know that yet). This scene is a nearly verbatim retelling of the true-life story of Hanne Liebmann, the inspiration for the character Henni, and the person who related the tale to me. Even so, it was the single most challenged scene by my editor, managing editor, CE, and several other readers, who couldn’t believe things could possibly transpire the way that they did. Read it to see for yourself, but I’ll tell you in advance it is true, and it really happened the way I describe it. Read more >
