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"A mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, ""Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell."" Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city. U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins enforces the law in the American Zone of Occupation. This post is his last chance to do what he loves most-being a homicide detective. But he gets more than he's bargained for when the mutilated bodies start piling up, panic threatens to tear the city apart, and the army brass start breathing down his neck to solve the case. Then the murderer makes him a target. Now it's a high-stakes duel, and to win it Mason must bring into deadly play all that he values: his partner, his career-even his life."

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The complicated Mason, who left the Chicago police force in disgrace, makes for a superb, flawed hero, whose compassion for others is augmented by his own demons. A sequel is mandatory. --Oline H. Cogdill Sun Sentinel A well-crafted, classic police tale set in postwar 1945 Munich, a city that could double as the living room of hell. . . . Mason's pursuit of the madman takes him though a ruined landscape filled with inhabitants as shattered as the city they live in. --Larry Bond, author of Cauldron [A] compelling debut . . . the period details are absorbing. --Publishers Weekly Connell generates considerable tension. . . . It's the vividly evoked postwar mood--devastated lives and landscapes combining to create an almost impenetrable fog of gloom--that is the real draw here. --Booklist A thrilling hunt...gripping and gruesome. --James Becker, bestselling author of The Lost Testament

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John A. Connell writes spellbinding crime thrillers with a historical twist. In addition to his standalone, Good Night, Sweet Daddy-O, he writes the post-WW2 Mason Collins series, which follows Mason to some of the most dangerous and turbulent places in the post-World War Two world. The first, Madness in the Ruins, was a 2016 Barry Award finalist, and the series has garnered praise from such bestselling authors as Lee Child and Steve Berry. In a previous life, John worked as a cameraman on films such as Jurassic Park and Thelma and Louise and on TV shows including NYPD Blue and The Practice. Atlanta-born, John spends his time between the U.S. and France.

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