Chris Bock

Everything Christopher Bock does is with passion and thoroughness fueled by curiosity. The list is diverse-photography, collecting baseball cards, keeping bees, and his own hardwood flooring business, Geronimo Floors. But he never thought of writing a book until he was handed his grandfather's autobiography. That same curiosity and passion led him to the extraordinary story of his grandfather's escape from Austria in 1938-and the key role a mischievous uncle played in the family's survival.

Chris's great-great uncle, Paul Patek, was openly gay, Jewish, and an engineer who landed a job in Japan in order to escape the Nazis.  This book is an epic adventure from Vienna to Japan and back.  A tale of family, history, holocaust survival and miracles, all through the actions of one charming ordinary man.