The Man Who Finally Died Author:John Burke As far as Joe Newman was aware, his German father, Kurt Deutsch, had been killed in action twenty years previously. — Then one day, out of the blue, Joe received a brief and mysterious telephone call from his father, summoning him from London to Konigsbaden, a small town in Western Germany. — Two days later, Joe arrived--only to be informed that h... more »is father had died of cerebral thrombosis the previous week. Grimly, he questioned everybody--Lisa Deutsch, his father's beautiful second wife...Dr. Von Brecht, her enigmatic companion...Hofmeister, the self-indulgent chief of police...Martha, the Deutsch housekeeper...
All told the same story.
But Joe knew they were lying. He knew, too, that he had stepped into a situation as dangerous as it was incomprehensible. When the truth was revealed, however, even he, prepared for the unexpected, was stunned by the sheer brutal shock of it all. And then--almost before he could recover--he was hurled into a sudden, frantic, desperate race against time...« less