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A Regret
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.95
Publisher: Gregory Fischbach
Published: Oct 30 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Albert Huncemann is sixty-seven, a retired New York physician, and a decorated veteran of the Second World War. Every night, after his wife leaves for her shift at the hospital, he walks out into the city, chooses a man he does not know, follows him home, and waits in the shadows until the man comes out again. He never speaks to them. He has done this for forty years, and he has never once been caught.
Then a retired doctor whose name is almost his own is murdered on 57th Street, and Albert is standing outside the door when it happens. A Russian émigré appears at his usual café and says he has been following Albert for a year. In a precinct downtown, a half-frozen stranger gives the police Albert's address, Albert's wife's name, Albert's war, and insists that he is also Albert Huncemann.
Arrested and put on trial while the city watches, Albert is forced back through everything he has spent a lifetime not looking at: a blindfolded prisoner in a field in France, a son given up in 1946, a marriage conducted in silence. What remains is a question he cannot answer. If another man carries your memories, your name, and your secrets, does it matter which of you goes on living?
A Regret is a short novel in the tradition of Camus and Dostoevsky's The Double, a study of the watcher who is finally watched.
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