Book description
Breslau, 1939. When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New
Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even
his famously strong stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy
- who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead
in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's
teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S. S.,
Gestapo and police, Mock is relieved to be assigned to liaise with
officers in Lvov, Poland, where a series of similar crimes - as yet
unsolved - continue to cast a long shadow over the town. Once in Lvov he
joins the ongoing investigation conducted by Commissioner Popieksi, a
fellow classicist who relies on a highly unorthodox method of deduction.
Breslau, 1939. When Abwehr Captain Eberhard Mock is called from his New
Year's Eve revelries to attend a particularly grisly crime scene, even
his famously strong stomach is turned. A young girl - and suspected spy
- who arrived by train from France just days before, has been found dead
in her hotel room, the flesh torn from her cheek by her assailant's
teeth. Ill at ease with the increasingly open integration of S. S.,
Gestapo and police, Mock is relieved to be assigned to liaise with
officers in Lvov, Poland, where a series of similar crimes - as yet
unsolved - continue to cast a long shadow over the town. Once in Lvov he
joins the ongoing investigation conducted by Commissioner Popieksi, a
fellow classicist who relies on a highly unorthodox method of deduction.
