Deceit & Greed: Book One

by Bruni Ziegler

Overview

This trilogy is the saga of the distinguished, powerful Keber family, a dynasty fueled by power, greed, corruption and deceit. It begins at the turn of the century, leads through the tumultuous twenties, the depression years and the stock market crash, the pre-war Nazism of the thirties, war-torn Germany of the forties, from the fifties leading to USA, all the way to the police corruption and drug wars of the eighties, finally returning home to Germany in the nineties.

In total, the three novels span a time-period of almost one hundred years. This saga tries to blend the inner and outer worlds of the characters to make their lives our own.

The heart of this story is my Aunt Elisabeth who played an important part in all our lives. Her life takes us from the upper crust of society in Germany to living a real live front-page scandal on Manhattan's Lower East side exposing the city's drug scene and police corruption. A titillating tale of voyeuristic pleasure and pain, misfortune, heartache, misery, and shame.

May these books leave footprints in the sands of time, imprints of family fame and fortune ever increasingly covered with layers of joy and tragedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369293058
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/27/2023
Series:	Deceit & Greed
Pages:	558
Sales rank:	1,015,664
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Barely escaping the horrors of World War II, Brunhilde (Bruni) E Ziegler was born September 17, 1939, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. As the American troops arrived at the war's end, her whole family barely escaped execution by gunshot. Her father, a German soldier sadly never returned. Her mother, left alone with five young children, could barely make ends meet.
In 1955, Bruni left Germany at the tender age of 15 and arrived in New York City to live with her Aunt Elisabeth and Uncle Georg, both had emigrated to the US from Germany in 1930. Her Aunt Elisabeth, also her godmother, helped all of her family survive during the post-war years by sending necessities to Germany.
After graduating from Mayer School of Fashion Design, Bruni was employed as an assistant fashion designer in New York City, and was completely self-sufficient at the age of 18. Just two years later, after a tragic ending to a German/Jewish love affair, heartbroken, she returned home to Germany. By 1960, with Germany on the rebound, everything seemed so much better and brighter.
Reinventing herself, she became a fashion and hairdresser model. Turning into a blonde, Bruni felt like a new person. As fate would have it, she met her future husband, a young handsome German man enlisted in the US Air Force, stationed at Ramstein Airforce base in Germany. She was married by 21, a mother of 3 by 30, and a grandmother of 9 by 65.
Living in the US since 1962, she finally has the time to complete this book that began over 34 years ago. In a deathbed promise to her Aunt Elisabeth, she held her hand and swore to her that she would write and share her tragic life story.
In the end, her aunt was verbally attacked and demonized as a slumlord of 222 East 13th Street.
There was no way out for her, sadly in her final days, she was a broken-hearted old woman living in dreams of yesteryear. As a lifelong witness to her aunt's life story, our author, Bruni Ziegler upheld her promise to her Aunt Elisabeth.