Luke McCallin put uit zijn uitgebreide ervaring als humanitair hulpverlener en vredeshandhaver in mondiale brandhaarden om zijn meeslepende verhalen te voeden. Zijn schrijven duikt in de diepgaande impact van conflicten en rampen op gewone individuen, en onderzoekt hoe zij omgaan met extreme druk. McCallins werk biedt een indringende en inzichtelijke kijk op menselijke veerkracht en kwetsbaarheid bij het aangaan van onvoorstelbare druk.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER THE WESTERN FRONT, JULY 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front when one of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to...
Luke McCallin, author of The Pale House and The Man from Berlin, delivers a dark, compelling thriller set in post-World War II Germany featuring ex-intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. A year after Germany’s defeat, Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin’s civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin’s new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation. It seems a serial killer is on the loose, and matters only escalate when it’s discovered that one of the victims was the brother of a Nazi scientist. Reinhardt’s search for the truth takes him across the divided city and soon embroils him in a plot involving the Western Allies and the Soviets. And as he comes under the scrutiny of a group of Germans who want to continue the war—and faces an unwanted reminder from his own past—Reinhardt realizes that this investigation could cost him everything as he pursues a killer who believes that all wrongs must be avenged…
German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has just been reassigned to a new branch of the military police with far-reaching powers. His position separates him from the allies he has made in the last two years, including a circle of fellow dissenting Germans who formed a rough resistance cell against the Nazis. Reinhardt witnesses a massacre of civilians in Yugoslavia, only to discover there is more to the incident than anyone believes. When five mutilated bodies turn up, he knows the stakes are growing more important and more dangerous
Amidst the chaos of World War II, in a land of brutality and bloodshed…One death can still change everything...Sarajevo, 1943: Marija Vukic, a beautiful young filmmaker and socialite, and a German officer are brutally murdered.Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already haunted by his wartime actions and the mistakes he’s made off the battlefield, he soon finds that his investigation may be more than just a murder - and that the late Yugoslav heroine may have been more treacherous than anyone knew.Reinhardt manoeuvres his way through a minefield of political, military, and personal agendas and vendettas, as a trail of dead bodies leads him to a secret hidden within the ranks of the powerful – a secret they will do anything to keep.But Reinhardt has rediscovered a purpose in life once lost, and he is determined to follow the case to the end, whatever the cost may be.