Apt pupil by Stephen King part I The story begins with a description of an American thirteen-year-old boy. He has blond hair, perfect smile and remarkably developed intellect. His name is Todd Bowden, he rarely receives Bs at school, As mostly, plays baseball and loves history. He have fallen in love with history ever since he discovered a pile of old magazines in his friend's garage. He read them thoroughly, fascinated for some reason by all those terrible things Nazis had done. He became desperate in search for more information and found ultimate source eventually. Kurt Dussander - former high-ranked Nazi who managed to escape from Germany in 1945 - happened to live close enough to Bowden's house in 1974. Of course he didn't advertise who he realy was, but the boy was smart enough to penetrate his secret. So, Todd comes to Dussander's house and makes his intentions clear. He doesn't need money or anything valuable, he wants to hear everything about "gooshy stuff". The old man tries to negotiate his way out of this telling the boy that he had no choice, that he was simply following orders. Dussander doesn't want to stir his memory. He had beeen trying to bury all those dreadfull things for almost 30 years in the deepest parts of his mind. The only thing that matters now for him is an opportunity to die peacefully. He even pleads and begs for mercy. But Bowden is persistent. Dussander has no choice.