Odin's Sons

  • The sequel to the successful novel Germania
  • Berlin, January 1945: In his second case, Inspector Oppenheimer once again investigates the mad reality of Hitler's nightmare empire

Oppenheimer‘s second case

 

Commissioner Oppenheimer has gone into hiding and has to get by making black market deals. When a brutal murder takes place in the process, his benefactor Hilde is arrested, for the dead man is her husband, SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Hauser. Although they have been separated for years, Hilde is an opponent of the regime and therefore has a motive: Unscrupulous Hauser was a doctor in a concentration camp in the east and carried out human experiments. Oppenheimer has to risk everything to prise Hilde from the clutches of the Nazi judicial system. He soon finds suggestions that a mysterious cult is involved in the murder case …

 

"Books like these are just the ones you don't forget, the ones that resonate with you years later. This is valuable reading!" - www.booksection.de

 

"'Germania' and 'Odin's Sons' are crime fiction masterpieces." - Wiener Zeitung

 

"Knowledgeable, nuanced, and gripping, Harald Gilbers continues to tell the story of his protagonist, Richard Oppenheimer, while offering a comprehensive, intensely experiential picture of the times." - www.histo-couch.de

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.09.2015
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-51643-0
  • 528 Pages
  • Series: Ein Fall für Kommissar Oppenheimer
  • Author: Harald Gilbers
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Harald Gilbers

Harald Gilbers, born 1970, studied English and History in Augsburg and Munich. He was a television editor before becoming a director for the theater. "Germania", his first novel, has been awarded the Glauser Prize for the best crime debut and in 2016, the French Prix Historia for “Odins Söhne” (Odin’s Sons). Odin’s Söhne has also been shortlisted for the Festival Polar Cognac Prize for the best international novel in 2016.

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