A twisty mystery (ish?) that revels in the imperfectness of its characters and the compromised morality of almost everyone that breathed European air during WWII. There's no shortage of looking the human condition in the face - I think in the space of three pages the reader gets vomit, pee, human bites, and animal blood matting a woman's hair. It's all a bit much and the herky-jerky writing doesn't help. This series is probably for someone but not for me.

2 stars

Sadly, I agree with the other readers who complained about the skipping and jumping that this book does. Quite frequently, I couldn’t tell who was doing the speaking. I had to keep going back to read over what I had just read trying to clarify the action. The transitions between paragraphs were awful.

The plot was good, but it didn’t keep me interested enough to finish the book. Hence I couldn’t rate the writing that good because so much of my interest in a book is how I relate to the characters and how smoothly it reads.

There are too many good books to read and too little time. I don’t believe I’ll be looking at any more of J. Robert Janes’ novels.

I want to thank Netgalley and Open Road Integrated Media/MysteriousPress.com/Open Road for forwarding to me a copy of this book to read.