Dan E. L. Patch, a devoted Christian and the police chief of Highland Park, Michigan, wrote this book in 1940, just before the US entered World War II. It’s a gripping story of a young man who transcends corruption and misfortune.

Book Contents

• Foreword
• 1 Life’s Equations
• 2 Complications Develop
• 3 The Unseen Web
• 4 Defiance
• 5 Questions, Legal and Otherwise
• 6 Where the Treasure Is, There Shall the Heart be Also
• 7 A Venture in Crime
• 8 Whose Gold Is It?
• 9 Premonition of Trouble
• 10 Once a Jew, Always a Jew
• 11 Languishing in Jail
• 12 The Shadows Fall
• 13 Choice of Two Evils
• 14 The Die is Cast
• 15 The Law of Compensation
• 16 Facing Finland and Death
• 17 Future Without Promise
• 18 In Disguise
• 19 The Stowaway
• 20 The Holy Land
• 21 An Ensign for the Nations
• 22 A Man of Mystery
• 23 The Lord’s Doing
• 24 The Stumbling Block
• 25 The Great Iron Claw

Publication Information

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• Copyright: CC BY 4.0