The Road to Ithaca
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Wehmacht officer Bora is sent to recently occupied Crete and must investigate the brutal murder of a Red Cross representative befriended by Himmler. All the clues lead to a platoon of trigger-happy German paratroopers but is this the truth? Bora takes to the mountains of Crete to solve the case, navigating his way between local bandits and foreign resistance fighters.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Pastor's solid fifth Martin Bora mystery (after 2015's Tin Sky) takes the Wehrmacht investigator from Moscow, where he's been stationed, to Crete in early June 1941, soon after the German occupation of the island and three weeks before Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Bora's mission is to secure 60 bottles of choice Cretan wine on behalf of NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria. But once the detective arrives in Crete, he receives a much different assignment. A British POW has reported to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau that, during the recent battle for Crete, a British NCO observed eight German paratroopers enter the home of a prominent Swiss national, where he soon heard gunfire. After the departure of the paratroopers, this witness discovered all the civilian occupants slain. While Bora isn't as memorable a character as Bernie Gunther, Philip Kerr fans will still find this depiction of an honest German cop working under adverse wartime circumstances intriguing.)
