Book description
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Criminal Councillor Eberhard Mock must search for answers in
Breslau's underworld, a decadent demi-monde he knows all too well. As
he pursues the investigation, his marriage is in decline. In revenge
for his misdemeanours, Mock's wife embarks on a sexual odyssey of her
own involving a mysterious figure who appears to be connected with the
apocalyptic fever gripping the city and high society of Breslau in the
late Twenties. Mock, himself the most ambiguous and complex of
policemen, must confront a cult that preaches the imminent end of the world.<
A man bound, gagged and sealed alive inside a wall to die. Another
quartered, his fingers severed. One of the victims was a musician, the
other a locksmith. The only detail that the killings have in common
apart from their abnormal savagery is a page of a calendar with the
day of the death marked in blood.<
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Criminal Councillor Eberhard Mock must search for answers in
Breslau's underworld, a decadent demi-monde he knows all too well. As
he pursues the investigation, his marriage is in decline. In revenge
for his misdemeanours, Mock's wife embarks on a sexual odyssey of her
own involving a mysterious figure who appears to be connected with the
apocalyptic fever gripping the city and high society of Breslau in the
late Twenties. Mock, himself the most ambiguous and complex of
policemen, must confront a cult that preaches the imminent end of the world.<
A man bound, gagged and sealed alive inside a wall to die. Another
quartered, his fingers severed. One of the victims was a musician, the
other a locksmith. The only detail that the killings have in common
apart from their abnormal savagery is a page of a calendar with the
day of the death marked in blood.<
