The Finishing Touch is a historical novel of political intrigue, identity theft, and love in post-World II Germany. Sid Kaplan, an American Jewish GI who works in the U.S. Military Government denazification unit at Regensberg, Bavaria, has a romance with Laura Lauscher, a German American. The Finishing Touch is Lester Libo's second novel. Openings, his first, is about identity theft in the art world. Libo is a retired psychologist, university professor and art dealer. A U.S. Army veteran of WWII, he served in the U.S. Military Government denazification program