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Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job. When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed, Willi Geismeier investigates, but as it gets political, he is taken off the case. Willi continues to ask questions, but when his pursuit of the truth itself becomes a crime, his career - and his life - are in grave danger.
About the Author
PETER STEINER was born and grew up in Cincinnati. After the University of Miami and the Free University of Berlin, and then after serving in the U.S. Army in Germany, he got a PHD. in German literature. He taught at Dickinson College for eight years, but left teaching to become an artist and cartoonist. For the next twenty-five years he made his living as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and many other publications. He created the cartoon "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog," the most reproduced cartoon The New Yorker has ever published. In the late 1990's he began writing novels, at first for his own amusement. Then A French Country Murder was published in 2003. L'Assassin followed in 2008; The Terrorist in 2010, The Resistance in 2012, The Capitalist in 2016. His most recent novel is The Good Cop, his sixth, published by Severn House in 2019. He lives in Connecticut and spends a good part of each year in rural France. He divides his time between writing, painting and cartooning. His paintings can be seen on his website, plsteiner.com. His cartoons are published on his blog Hopeless but not Serious at plsteiner.com/blog.
