''An atmospheric and gripping standalone thriller'' - THE TIMESThe gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times and one million copy bestselling author of The English Führer. In this brilliant standalone crime novel set in 1930s Munich, Detective Sebastian Wolff must walk a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the Nazi party he despises.MUNICH, 1935 - The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young, aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the [...] they don''t see - or choose to ignore - is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement which considers Munich its spiritual [...] a high-born English girl is murdered, Detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. Wolff is already walking a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the political party he abhors. Now Hitler is taking a personal interest in the case.Followed by the secret police and threatened by his own son, a fervent member of the Hitler Youth, the stakes have never been higher. And when Wolff begins to suspect that the killer might be linked to the highest reaches of the Nazi hierarchy, he fears his task is simply impossible - and that he might become the next victim.Praise for Rory Clements:''Master of the wartime spy thriller'' - FT''Rich in deception'' - DAILY EXPRESS''A dramatic, twisty thriller'' - DAILY MAIL''Enjoyable, bloody and brutish'' - GUARDIAN''A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists'' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH*Sunday Times bestselling author of MUNICH WOLF w/c 27th January 2024 ending 3rd February 2024*