The new novel "The Key from Cordoba" is inspired by A.H. Behrend's: Some Actual Information on the Life of Agent Behrend (1915), a small book that I found many years ago at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. 

The novel tells the story of the Jew Joachim, who arrived in Copenhagen in 1783. He was sent to Denmark by his mother for an arranged marriage to a young Jewish woman living there. The story follows him through his development and his marriages, until he becomes a successful, wealthy businessman with connections to the royal family. The reader is brought into the tumultuous time in Danish history, when the country experienced the Battle of Copenhagen, and some years later, the bombardment of the same city. The story is also about the conditions of the Jews at the end of the 1800s, as well as about the Jewish riots in the capital in 1820, which eventually contributed to Joachim's death. 

Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend grew up in Frederiksberg. Since 1980, he has lived in the United States. He graduated in 2016 from the Assisi Institute focusing on Jungian dream analysis and archetypal pattern studies. In 2005 he publish his first book: 78 TPM, the Record of a Family, stories from his parents and grandparents turbulent times through two world wars. His latest book: Sojourner in a Foreign Land, is a memoir about his life growing up in Copenhagen Denmark and immigrating first to Germany and later to the United States . He lives in Olympia WA, with his wife, Silvia Ruth Behrend.