A writer who has always fascinated A.B. Decker is the enigmatic B. Traven, whose best-known novel is probably Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Theories abound as to the true identity of the man behind the name: from an obscure German anarchist to the half-brother of Walther Rathenau, foreign minister in the Weimar Republic until his assassination in 1922. But as B. Traven himself wrote: “The creative person should have no other biography than his works.” So, in this spirit, there is actually little to say about the author A.B. Decker, whose... read full review »