Farrel Vogelhut, a member of Beth El, recently published an historical novel/techno-thriller entitled Baltimore Logic.  The novel was written using a pseudonym, Basil Truscott. 

Set in pre-World War II Baltimore (1939-1941), Baltimore Logic chronicles the saga of Martin Victor, a Jewish teacher of history at Baltimore City College High School, who gets drafted into a counter-intelligence unit composed of a uniquely-diverse collection of FBI, Office of Naval Intelligence and Baltimore City Police Department personnel. Tasked with protecting local aerospace and electronics enterprises from sophisticated and highly-motivated Axis spies, Martin and his colleagues play a complex zero-sum game of espionage within Baltimore’s pressure-cooker of ethnic, religious, and racial communities. Poignant and heroic (in a classical Greek sense), Baltimore Logic rivets the reader's attention from its mysterious beginning to its mystical end.

It is recommended that attendees read the book prior to the program.