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The Boy Who Saw

Simon Toyne

An amnesiac fugitive in France is pulled into a murder case and a Holocaust-era conspiracy that may explain who he is.

First published 2017 · Solomon Creed

Review Score: 92%

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Solomon Creed arrives in southern France with no clear memory of his past and only fragments to guide him. When a tailor is brutally murdered, Solomon is drawn into protecting the victim’s family while becoming a suspect himself, all as police and shadowy enemies close in.

As the search spreads across France, the story alternates between the present investigation and historical material tied to World War II, concentration camps, and survivor testimony. Clues about a suit, a hidden list, and the murdered tailor’s past connect the chase to a long-buried secret that still threatens people in the present.

Along the way, Solomon’s search for identity deepens while the boy Leo and his mother Marie-Claude try to uncover what was hidden and why it is still being killed for. The book builds toward a series of revelations about memory, survival, and the legacy of past atrocities, while leaving Solomon’s full truth unresolved for later installments.

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