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Quercus
January 2015
On Sale: January 6, 2015
Featuring: Georg Heuser; Paula Siebert
400 pages ISBN: 1623658497 EAN: 9781623658496 Kindle: B00LZYBTOQ Hardcover / e-Book
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Based on a horrifying true story of one of the Holocaust's
worst Nazi war criminals comes a crime thriller that
combines a police procedural, courtroom thriller, and a
fast-paced war-time narrative. In Ostland David Thomas
confronts the question of how does one man charged with
eradicating evil become one of its greatest perpetrator. In wartime Berlin the brilliant, idealistic young detective
Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the
biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is
slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their
battered bodies by the tracks. Heuser must confront evil
eye-to-eye as he helps track down the murderer. Soon after,
Heuser is promoted by the SS and sent off to oversee the
systematic murder of thousands of Jews in the new empire the
Nazis call Ostland. Years after the end of the war Heuser
thinks his diabolical past has been forgotten. Yet, an
enterprising young lawyer, Paula Siebert, searching through
Soviet archives, discovers Heuser and his fellow officers'
crimes. Siebert is haunted by one question: how could a once decent
man have become a sadistic monster? Desperate to cover his
tracks, Heuser uses his training as a lawyer and years as a
police detective to distance himself from his
co-conspirators and escape justice. Ostland is a gripping
detective thriller, a harrowing account of the Holocaust and
a thought-provoking examination of the human capacity for evil.
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