Abramof, aged 106, relates the story of his turbulent life to his great-grandson, Daniel, an aspiring writer. Events shared with the reader commence on the morning of the second anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war. A tale of intrigue takes the reader through the fall and rise of a family in two worlds, the exciting account playing out in Austin, Texas, and Jerusalem, Israel. The author, Harald Lutz Bruckner, once again weaves a tapestry of life in The Merchant of Texas, its unlikely protagonists the old man and his precocious great-great-grandson, Zoltán Abramof III, lovingly named Little Z.