FOURTH IN THE MARTIN BORA SERIES.
SPELLBINDING MULTI-LAYERED CRIME NOVEL SET IN UKRAINE AS THE GERMANS
REGROUP AFTER THE DISASTER OF STALINGRAD.
FOR FANS OF PHILLIP KERR (BERNIE GUNTHER SERIES), ALAN FURST (SPIES OF
THE BALKANS).
THE HERO, MAJOR MARTIN BORA, IS AN ARISTOCRATIC GERMAN OFFICER OF THE
ILK OF CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG, TORN BETWEEN HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER AND
HIS INTEGRITY AS A HUMAN BEING.
Ukraine, 1943. Having barely escaped the inferno of Stalingrad, Major
Martin Bora is serving on the Russian front as a German
counterintelligence officer. Weariness, disillusionment, and battle
fatigue are a soldier's daily fare, yet Bora seems to be one of the few
whose sanity is not marred by the horrors of war.
As the Wehrmacht prepare for the Kursk counter-offensive, a Russian
general defects aboard a T-34, the most advanced tank of the war. Soon
he and another general, this one previously captured, are found dead in
their cells. Everything appears to exclude the likelihood of foul play,
but Bora begins an investigation, in a stubborn attempt to solve a
mystery that will come much too close to home.