
This stunning atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA Gold Dagger & has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series. A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals. Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon. 1941. Klaus Felsen SS arrives in Lisbon & the strangest party in history where Nazis & Allies refugees & entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism & despair. Felsens war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitlers blitzkrieg. Late 1990s Lisbon. Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history & unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But theres an older greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is horrific compensation & in his final push for the truth Ze must face the most chilling opposition.