Not Just a Game
About this ebook
Thirty-six years later, Dietrichs son, Adam, assistant head of the 1972 Israeli Olympic team, travels to Munich, where eleven Israeli athletes including one of his friends, fencing coach Levi Frankel, are murdered by Islamic terrorists. Eventually Adams daughter, Kirsten, is taught to fence by Levis widow and sets her sights on the 2016 Olympics. When she travels to Rio with the Israeli team just as Nazism is reborn, Kirsten and a French fencer become intrigued by rumors that Hitler fled WWII to South America. After visiting Bariloche, Argentina to investigate, they explore Hitlers house and find the priceless Amber Room. As her journey leads her back to the Olympics, Kirsten soon discovers she is fighting not just to win gold but also for her life.
Not Just a Game is the riveting story of three generations of Olympic athletes as they attempt to survive monumental challenges in the shadow of Hitler and during a rebirth of Nazism.
About the author
Doug Zipes graduated from Dartmouth College, Harvard Medical School, and Duke University Medical Center. Over his lengthy career, he has published sixteen textbooks and more than eight hundred medical articles, and he currently writes a health column for the Saturday Evening Post. Dr. Zipes lives outside Indianapolis with his wife of fifty-five years. Not Just a Game is his third novel.
