'No denying the book's power' Nick Rennison, Sunday Times 'The real
skill of this rigorous, disturbing novel lies in the way Petit
steadily and unsensationally allows his protagonists to discover
the full horror of the hellhole they are in' Guardian 'One of
Britain's most visionary writers' David Peace From the author of
the highly acclaimed The Butchers of Berlin comes a devastating,
haunting and brilliant follow up. . . By 1943 Auschwitz is the
biggest black market in Europe. The garrison has grown epically
corrupt on the back of the transportations and goods confiscated,
and this is considered even more of a secret than the one
surrounding the mass extermination. Everything is done to resist
penetration until August Schlegel and SS officer Morgen, after
solving the case of the butchers of Berlin, are sent in disguised
as post office officials to investigate an instance of stolen gold
being sent through the mail. Their chances of getting out of
Auschwitz alive are almost nil, unless Schlegel and Morgen accept
that the nature of the beast they are fighting means they too must
become as corrupt as the corruption they are desperate to expose.
Even if they survive, will it be at the cost of losing their souls?
Praise for Chris Petit: 'Powerful evocation of a city living in
terror' Sunday Times Crime Club 'Ambitious, darkly atmospheric' The
Times 'Hugely impressive and highly readable; in the tradition of
Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs' Financial Times
'Ferocious invention marks this novel out as special' The Edge
'Ambitious and intelligent' Times 'Puts Petit in the first rank'
Metro 'A zigzagging narrative as byzantine an blackly pessemistic
as late James Ellroy' Independent on Sunday 'An example of the
genre near its best. Gorky Park with something to spare; well worth
anyone's weekend' Guardian for The Psalm Killer
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