Dackerl is a c.40,000 word novella set in 1948 about the quest of a young man to avenge his father, a prominent writer who has been murdered by a Nazi named Dackerl. The young man travels to Vienna where he meets a variety of people, including a renowned physicist, a Jewish scholar, a famous film director and an aristocratic Russian refugee, in whom he falls madly in love. The young man enters a world of smoke and mirrors in which nothing is what it seems.