Inspired by real events. Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. Nico’s innocence and goodness is used against his tightly knit community in Salonika, Greece when a German officer barters Nico’s reputation for honesty into a promise to save his loved ones. He will spend the rest of this life changing names, changing locations and identities, desperate to find a way to forgiveness—for himself and from the people he loves most. A New Times Bestseller