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Book Review of Straight into Darkness

Straight into Darkness
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The terrifying concept seems apt for the slaying of a young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden in 1929 Munick. Homicinde inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime, and his superiors demand a quick arrest; anyone who can be demonized will do. When a second body is found, the city erupts into panic, the unrest fomented by Adolf Hitler and his Brownshirt party of young thugs. Berg can trust no one as he hunts a ruthless killer, atruggling to bring a fiend to justice before his country,and his life,veer Straight Into Darkness.