QB 7

The story unfolds in four parts. The first part follows Abraham Cady, a successful writer and Holocaust survivor, who discovers that the Nazi Jadwiga concentration camp was the place where his family and a million Jews were brutally murdered. Cady writes a book, "The Holocaust," in which he accuses the famous English surgeon, Sir Adam Kelno, of being a sadistic Nazi doctor at the camp. Kelno, a Polish nobleman who had emigrated to Britain, allegedly performed cruel medical experiments on prisoners, including sterilizations and vivesections, under the direction of the SS.

The second part reveals Kelno's background: Born Tadeusz Borkmann in Poland, Kelno survived only murder and starvation at the Jadwiga concentration camp, forced to commit terrible acts to save his life and that of his family. He claims that he was trying to save the prisoners, but Cady's accusations destroy him - he loses patients, friends, and reputation. Furious, Kelno sues Cady for defamation in a British court, Queen's Bench Courtroom VII (QB VII).

Treći deo, srce romana, jeste intenzivna sudska bitka u Londonu. Kejdijev advokat, podmukli američki advokat Kirkland, dovodi svedoke iz Holokausta: jevrejske preživele, partizane, pa čak i nacističke dokumente. Otkrivaju se jezive istine o logoru - Kelno je zaista bio umešan u zločine, ali sud mora da dokaže da je Kejdijeva knjiga lažna. Kelno se brani dostojanstveno, ali svedočenja opovrgavaju njegovu fasadu: za neke je bio „anđeo milosti“, a za druge demon. Sudnica postaje arena za sukob dva sveta - žrtava i optuženih.

U četvrtom delu, nakon presude, Kelno dobija samo pola penija odštete - simboličnu kaznu, jer su njegovi zločini toliko strašni da knjiga nije dodatno oštetila njegovo ime. Kejdi pobeđuje moralno, ali gubi prijatelje i veru u pravdu. Roman se završava razmišljanjem o neizlečivim ranama rata.

Uris majstorski spaja istoriju, psihologiju i suspens, inspirisan stvarnim događajima kao što je suđenje Ajhmanu. „QB VII“ nije samo priča o Holokaustu, već o tome kako prošlost oblikuje identitet i potragu za istinom po svaku cenu.