Praise for the Martin Bora series:
"The tone of Liar Moon has a flu-like grimness, appropriate the 1943 setting. Pastor is excellent at providing details (silk stockings, movie magazines, cigarettes) that light up the setting."Booklist
"Lumen's plot is well crafted, her prose shap . . . a disturbing mix of detection and reflection."Publisher's Weekly
Rome, 1944. While the Allies are fighting their way up the Italian peninsula, Rome lives the last days of Nazi occupation. Their world is falling apart as the German Army, the Gestapo, and the SS vie for power while holding glittering and debauched parties. But this is also a time of Italian partisan attacks, arrests, and mass executions, all to the sound of Allied artillery bombardment just outside the walls of the city.
Baron Martin von Bora, an officer in the Wehrmacht, has the complex and delicate task of solving not one, but three murders. A young German embassy secretary has "accidentally" fallen to her death from a fourth-floor window, and a Roman society lady and a headstrong cardinal of the Roman Curia are found dead in her apartment. The cardinal is personally known to Bora and, like the officer, secretly active in the resistance against the Third Reich. With Italian police inspector Sandro Guidi at his side, Bora sets off to establish the truth. Different as they are, the two men confront crime, war, and dictatorship in the awareness that the dignity of man comes at a price beyond all imagination.
ES Index : 3
Has Cover : Yes
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
All Identifiers : goodreads:21892442, isbn:9781908524317
Test Text Series Index: Bora
Single Author : Ben Pastor
Original Source : New_Train_Pack_2019-050
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Pastor, Ben
Title Length : 020
Title Parm D : A Dark Song of Blood
Title Parm F : A Dark Song of Blood
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-05
Record ID : 102319
Template Work Area : Bora
ES Name : Captain Martin Bora
Uncomma Author : Ben Pastor
Title Parm A : A Dark Song of Blood