Pinot Noir

Inspired by True Events

In 1939, German forces churn bucolic Alsace, France into a shattered landscape. Against that unsettled backdrop, Nazis raid the cellar of a winemaker who had poisoned a case of his best pinot noir to spite the invaders. The wine leaves with the Nazis and the adventure begins. Every chapter of Pinot Noir tells the story of one of those 12 poisoned bottles and the lives they change forever.

When Mads Molnar, a psychologist-turned detective, gets a call from the Gestapo, they make it clear that his own life depends on his recovering the bottles. He's already been given the death penalty by the Arrow Cross-Hungary's fascist party-but the Gestapo will grant a pardon and exit papers to neutral Sweden if he succeeds.

But Molnar's not alone on the case. Wolfram Bastick is a Nazi detective with a penchant for brutality. And his father was killed by the wine. As Bastick races to find his father's killer, Molnar tries to beat him to the bottles. Meanwhile, Bastick's mesmerizing fianc Marilyn Ghetz is plotting to murder him for reasons of her own.

Molnar must recover the wine, win over Bastick's fianc, escape the Nazis and make it out of Germany without getting caught and killed-or worse. 

This thought-provoking thriller is the story of a generation still reeling from the shattered innocence of the first war when they are hit by a second. Molnar lost his wife, Marilyn, her family and Bastick, his humanity. But most of all, Pinot Noir is the story of a man meting out life and death as he confronts the darkest motivations and psychological terrors of the third Reich.