Richard Bankowsky: 7 books

In l973 an illiterate hermit recluse of a Polish religious Order had allegedly fallen into a trance and began inexplicably speaking in a voice and language not his own. The so-called Judas Tapes are recordings of this voice representing itself to be that of Judas Iscariot speaking out of the darkness of Sheol, the Hebrew land of the dead.

HELLO CENTRAL begins back in the fall of 1946 in post World War II New Jersey on the Erie-Lackawanna train heading down to The Wilbour Eddy School for Boys where Roman Jake Jakowsky, a culturally and socially deprived graduate in the lower half of his high school class, will spend an additional two (not one) years prepping for admission into his hero Albert Einstein's Princeton University.

A former Hitler Youth and documentary filmmaker finds himself at the fabulous Alban Hills estate of Il Conte Nemorensis, a former Iberian vice king resurrected as a world renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economic and political adviser to developing Third World nations. What follows is a...

Mumbling the prayers of the Rosary at Stanislaw Machek's wake, his family wondered what happened the night before his youngest daughter Stella ran away to New York City. Only the mother, Rosalja, had been there then, and she sat now, as she had ever since, mindlessly gazing at a bowl of glass flowers...

Meet JOHNNY, the gambler, who falls in love with Lady Luck embodied in a photograph of another man's wife and ends up castrated; GELDSTUCKER, the artist who panders for his own bride and ends up murdered by his whore in Korea; and MR. WADZIO, who trades the syndicates controlling interest in a Seventh Avenue Suit and Cloak firm for the love of a women, with, of course, fatal consequences.

The explosive novel of a decent man's journey into Evil. In 1942 a quiet apolitical university professor finds himself a reluctant SS officer in the remote marshlands of occupied Poland. When a trainload of Jews bound for the death camps at Belzec is detained at his depot, what follows is a shattering confrontation of good and evil that ends in riot, madness, massacre―and a miracle.

In 1945, an eighteen-year-old U.S. Military Police Corporal in Germany fell in love with a beautiful Polish DP twice his age called Magda. Seven months later, he received a telegram from home reading, "Darling, Your Uncle Groszek and I were married this morning, Love Magda," and another...