Go Down to Silence

Jacob Horowitz, a worn and bitter business tycoon, has never spoken to anyone about his experience of Nazi persecution during World War II -- not even his recently deceased wife, Liza. Suddenly stricken with terminal cancer, the aging Jew receives an invitation from his old friend Pierre, a Gentile Christian and former Belgian underground operative, to pay him one last visit in Belgium. Jacob accepts, and determines to take along his estranged son Isaac. In this fast-paced, vivid historical account set alternately in war-torn Europe and today's United States, the consequences of war become clear. Momentous events push the hardened Horowitz toward reconciliation with his youngest son, with his past, with God, and with himself.

G.K. Belliveau is the author of the historical biography Say to This Mountain: The Life of James T. Jeremiah. He is a writing instructor at Cedarville University and holds a master's degree in English from Kent State University. Belliveau lives in Ohio with his wife, Patricia, and their daughter, Kaitlin.