Phantoms of Breslau
✍ Scribed by Marek Krajewski
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9789781612190
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
"Phantoms of Breslau is a cynical, moody thriller which solidifies Krajewski's position as a distinctive voice in contemporary European fiction."
--Irish Examiner
Breslau, 1919: The hideously battered, naked bodies of four sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant Eberhard Mock, back from the war, arrives at the scene to investigate, he finds an enigmatic note addressed to him insisting that he admit to past mistakes and become a believer.
As he endeavors to piece together the elements of the brutal crime, Mock combs the brothels and drinking dens of the then still-German city of Breslau and is drawn into an insidious game: it seems that anyone he questions during the course of the investigation is destined to become the next victim.
Meanwhile, Mock uncovers a secret society that has the Criminal Assistant himself clearly in its sights.
Dark, sophisticated, and uncompromising, the...
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