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When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of fleeing war criminals, making it the final depository for the Nazis' stolen riches. There are fortunes to be made on the black market. Murder, extortion, and corruption have become the norm.
It's a perfect storm for a criminal investigator like Mason Collins, especially when his friend, CIC Agent John Winstone, claims that a group of powerful men are taking over the lucrative trade. But before he can fully explain, Winstone—and his girlfriend— are brutally murdered.
Determined to uncover the truth, Mason plunges into a shadowy labyrinth of co-conspirators including former SS and Gestapo officers, U.S. Army OSS officers, and liberated Polish POWs.
As both witnesses and evidence begin disappearing, it becomes obvious that someone on high is pulling strings to stifle the investigation—and that Mason must feel his way in the darkness if he is going to find out who in town has the most to gain—and the most to lose...
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- ISBN: 9780698197114
- File size: 753 KB
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- ISBN: 9780698197114
- File size: 753 KB
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- English
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December 21, 2015
Connell’s intense sequel to 2015’s Ruins of War finds CID criminal
investigator Mason Collins in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the heart of black marketeering for the entire American sector in post-WWII Germany. In the aftermath of a blown attempt by Mason, disguised as a local, to infiltrate a powerful German gang in a bar, he runs into an old friend of his, John Winstone, who’s a special agent with the Counter Intelligence Corps. Mason joins Winstone for an evening out, but the investigator’s suspicions are raised by his friend’s newfound wealth. Winstone manages to convince Mason that his sumptuous house and the trappings are part of his cover and that he has been investigating a criminal ring that has ties to both German criminal elements and officers high in the U.S. military. Then Winstone is murdered, and the scramble is on to find the incriminating documents that he assembled. Connell keeps readers guessing to the end as to just who’s trustworthy and who might be part of the shadowy syndicate. Agent: Matt Bialer, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
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