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Winter 1945. Seven months after the Nazi defeat, Munich is in ruins. Mason Collins—a former Chicago homicide detective, U.S. soldier, and prisoner of war—is now a U.S. Army criminal investigator in the American Zone of Occupation. It's his job to enforce the law in a place where order has been obliterated. And his job just became much more dangerous.
A killer is stalking the devastated city—one who has knowledge of human anatomy, enacts mysterious rituals with his prey, and seems to pick victims at random. Relying on his wits and instincts, Mason must venture places where his own life is put at risk: from interrogation rooms with unrepentant Nazi war criminals to penetrating the U.S. Army's own black market.
What Mason doesn't know is that the killer he's chasing is stalking him, too...
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May 5, 2015 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780698184855
- File size: 710 KB
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780698184855
- File size: 710 KB
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- English
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March 23, 2015
Connell’s compelling debut, a serial killer thriller set in post-WWII Munich, introduces Mason Collins, an officer in the American army. A former Chicago homicide cop who was kicked off the force for alleged corruption, Mason was captured at the Battle of Bulge and briefly held at Buchenwald before entering a POW camp. Seven months after the Nazi surrender, Mason is now serving in the Army’s criminal investigation division in Germany. Death—from illness, starvation, and the cold—is rampant. Others die from unnatural causes, like the unidentified man whose torso was eviscerated and limbs severed and removed. The murder seems even more savage after an autopsy shows that the mutilations were not postmortem. Mason’s overworked commanding officer doesn’t want him pursuing a homicide case that’s likely a German-on-German crime with no leads. But the detective’s suspicions that the killer isn’t done leads him to risk his career to catch him. The payoff isn’t quite at the level of the setup, but the period details are absorbing. Agent: Matt Bialer, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
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