Checkmate
By: Ester Toker ; [translation, Ruti Cywiak ; edited by Tzirel Strassman]
Contributors: Cywiak, Ruti; Strassman, Tzirel
Publisher: Myzlik Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Beit Shemesh, Israel
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Money laundering; Fiction; Jewish families; Amnesia; Jewish religious education of girls
Work titles: Shaḥmaṭ
Description: "Can a person really get amnesia? Or perhaps the patient hospitalized is doing an impersonation? The Central Bank of Switzerland is issuing illegal loans. The ... mastermind ... covers his tracks and frames other senior officers of the bank. The chief inspector ... is he obligated to sacrifice his position in the bank and the future of his family to save an innocent man? [Can his daughter be friends with that of the chief suspect?]--p. [4] of cover.