The Fall of Declan Curtis

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International intrigue and the Russian mob are the making of a good story … and John Jeremiah certainly knows how to tell it. - Barthelemy Banks, Mumm Declan Curtis is a bohemian Oriental rug dealer who is fond of single malt, fine food and Emily Dickinson. His idyllic existence is disrupted when his wife runs off with a mutual friend. He starts drinking too much and taking chances. While doing business in Zurich, he is offered a dicey proposition. In Tel Aviv he meets with a mysterious paterfamilias known as Uncle. He agrees to be a middleman in a ransom deal between Uncle’s Russian Jewish family and a Russian mob in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. This almost costs him his life and thrusts him into an underworld of thugs and murderers. In the end he has to face a dangerous mob boss on his own and make what he calls Bonhoeffer’s leap, a moral decision about dealing with an evil man.