A Thousand Devils (Max Heller, Dresden Detective E book 2)

A disturbing homicide reveals a high-stakes conspiracy among the many ruins of postwar Dresden.

Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German metropolis, the struggling continues within the throes of a brutal winter. The cautious and exhausted residents scramble to outlive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for meals, and Detective Max Heller known as to the scene of a savage homicide. A Russian officer was stabbed to demise, and never removed from the frozen corpse is an deserted backpack containing one other man’s severed head.

If the grisly discover belonged to the useless officer, it might implicate the town’s omnipotent Soviet navy occupiers. If it belonged to the officer’s killer, then Heller faces much more troubling questions.

Regardless of dire warnings from higher-ups on all sides, Heller is decided to find the solutions. His investigation leads him down a path of unspeakable corruption, determined murders, and larger looming evils that Heller might by no means be capable to comprise.