Its the summer of 1940, and while the Blitz is killing Londoners by the hundreds, a methodical madman is killing them one at a time. In analyzing his MO, Detective Morris Black comes to a startling realization: The murderer seems to have advance knowledge of where the Luftwaffe will be dropping its bombs. Overnight, Blacks comparatively simple case of serial murder has exploded into a complex web of espionage. Untangling the threads will force Black to grapple not only with the killer, but also with a vicious Gestapo spy and perhaps most disturbing of all with the poisonously polite anti-Semitism that runs through the British police force, through the intelligence services, and up to the highest levels of government. A gripping, unrelentingly readable combination of history, spy story, and mystery . . . life outside this captivating book simply ceases The Ottowa Citizen Superb . . . a baroque, serial-killer whodunit set in World War II London . . . remarkably evocative -- Kirkus Hydes storytelling is pure genius . . . this is historical fiction at its finest Daily Press (Newport News, VA)