Red Herring
What makes a good man? And how far can he descend into darkness before he can no longer call himself one?
Wilhelm Miller has spent years forgotten on the streets of London, surviving hunger, bitter winters, and the indifference of a society that has learned not to see men like him.
Then, one freezing night, he witnesses the execution of Hans -the closest thing to family he has left.
The authorities dismiss Hans as another dead vagrant. Another nameless body. Another crime not worth solving.
Wilhelm cannot.
Convinced that the suffering surrounding him is the consequence of powerful men who have escaped responsibility for far too long, Wilhelm makes an extraordinary decision: if those entrusted with protecting humanity will not answer for what they have done, he will make them answer himself.
What begins as vengeance soon becomes something much larger.
Armed with little more than intelligence, patience, faith, and an increasingly dangerous conviction that he is carrying out a necessary mission, Wilhelm disappears into the world. He changes his appearance, his methods, and his identity, becoming a human red herring capable of blending into the cultures around him while leaving almost nothing behind.
His journey carries him across continents and into communities far removed from the London streets he once called home. Along the way, Wilhelm encounters extraordinary kindness, devastating poverty, friendship, corruption, innocence, and people whose lives force him to confront the contradictions within his own crusade.
Because Wilhelm Miller is not without compassion. He is not without conscience. And he is certainly not without doubt.
With every life he takes, the boundary between justice and murder becomes harder to distinguish. Wilhelm believes he is acting for those who have no voice, but an increasingly difficult question follows him wherever he goes:
Can a man commit evil in the name of good without eventually becoming the very thing he set out to destroy?
Spanning years and crossing international borders, Red Herring is a dark psychological thriller about vengeance, faith, power, poverty, morality, and one man's attempt to impose justice upon a world he believes has abandoned it.
Wilhelm knows his mission cannot continue forever. He also knows that when it ends, someone will have to answer for everything he has done.
Including him.
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