by Cay Rademacher (Author), Cay Rademacher (Author), Peter Millar (Translator)
Hamburg 1947: It is the year of extremes.After a bitterly cold winter of starvation, the bombed city groans under excruciating heat. And Chief Inspector Frank Stave is confronted with a new case.In the ruins of a shipyard, the corpse of a boy is found and Stave's hunt for the killer leads him into the world of wolf children - orphaned children who have fled from the Occupied Eastern Territories and now united in gangs.When two more bodies are discovered Stave is under even increasing pressure as he struggles to keep his personal life together too...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: 15 Mar 2017
ISBN 10: 1910050989
ISBN 13: 9781910050989
'Undoubtedly the most powerful work of crime fiction I have read this year'
-- Independent'Vivid and harrowing'
-- Sunday TimesCay Rademacher was born in 1965 in Northern Germany, but lives now in Southern France. (Anybody who has seen both places knows why.) He has studied history and philosophy in Cologne and Washington, D.C. and is working as a journalist. He is also the author of several thrillers - including the trilogy on Oberinspektor Frank Stave, who is fighting crime in the ruins of British-occupied Hamburg in the 1940s.