A Place to Hide

<p><strong>It's 1923 and Bill Waite is on the run from a cruel Montana parole boss. Arriving in New York City he needs a hideout and someone to trust.</strong> He finds both working on the Holland Tunnel as a sandhog laborer with Virgil Pushkin Shulman the first Jew he's ever known.</p><p>Virgil guides him into a new life and helps him develop a false identity. Through this friendship Bill learns about Jewish history and Yiddish culture. He shelters a six-year old slum-child takes her to ballgames at Ebbets Field falls for her mother. After a life of loneliness and hardship happiness.</p><p>But when Bill rescues a coworker from a tunnel blowout the front-page notoriety alerts his pursuers....</p><p><em>A Place to Hide</em> probes a fugitive's mindset-with suspense humor and a unique moral vision.</p>