The French Riviera, 1956: The invitation to dinner was not unexpected, though neither was it welcome. Ernst Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's not on holiday. An old and dangerous adversary, Mielke is calling in a debt. He intends that Bernie go to London and, with the vial of Thallium he now pushes across the table, poison a female agent they both have had dealings with.

The French Riviera, 1956: The invitation to dinner was not unexpected, though neither was it welcome. Ernst Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's not on holiday. An old and dangerous adversary, Mielke is calling in a debt. He intends that Bernie go to London and, with the vial of Thallium he now pushes across the table, poison a female agent they both have had dealings with.

"The exhibition of Yishai Jusidman (b. Mexico, 1963) presents his art production in which he reflects on a pigment (Prussian blue) whose historical and social implications go beyond its aesthetic qualities. The pigment was one of the first artificially-developed pigments and was discovered by accident by Heinrich Diesbach in Berlin in 1704. As often happens, this color is a fundamental part of the history of Germany: it was the color chosen for the Prussian military uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries and is closely linked to the Nazi genocide. According to some studies, a compound chemically close to the Prussian blue was used as a pesticide by the Nazis. Even some walls of the extermination camps still have the blue color marks."--

When his cover is blown, Bernie Gunther plays a game of cat-and-mouse with an old enemy before escaping to Berlin seeking help from a group of former allies.

A way to alter embryos is developed, allowing parents to have perfect children at $500,000 a child, and a financier decides to experiment on his wife. The result is wonderwoman Julie, who at age three reads newspapers and plays the piano. When competitors kidnap her to gain the formula, Julie shows she can fight like wonderwoman, too. By the author of Prussian Blue.