The Carnival Master Author:Craig Russell Chief Commissar Jan Fabel thought he was finished with death. Instead, while he is preparing for a new career outside the police, a Cologne detective asks for his help in tracking down the Carnival Cannibal, a terrifying serial killer who has struck each year for three years at the start of Cologne's world-famous annual Carnival. — Marie Klee, F... more »abel's deputy, is close to mental breakdown and on extended sick leave. Unknown to anyone, Maria also heads for Cologne to hunt down a different, even more dangerous killer. One with whom she has a score to settle.
Taras Buslenko, a Ukrainian special-forces commander prepares his hand-picked undercover spetsnaz unit for a 'black' operation into Cologne. Their aim: to end, with extreme prejudice, the rule of an expat Ukrainian crime-boss of legendary cruelty. Their orders: to let nothing or nobody get in their way.
Three paths are converging on Cologne at Carnival at a time when the world is traditionally turned on it's head and chaos rules. And everybody hides behind a mask.
Fabel finds himself on a trail of betrayal and vengeance, violence and death. And once more faces his greatest enemy, the true Master of the Carnival.« less