The Divided City

Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. A year after Germanys defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlins civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlins new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation. It seems a serial killer is on the loose, and matters only escalate when its discovered that one of the victims was the brother of a Nazi scientist. Reinhardts search for the truth takes him across the divided city and soon embroils him in a plot involving the Western Allies and the Soviets. And as he comes under the scrutiny of a group of Germans who want to continue the warand faces an unwanted reminder from his own pastReinhardt realizes that this investigation could cost him everything as he pursues a killer who believes that all wrongs must be avenged