Dimensions
113 x 178 x 22mm
Paris, January 1943: Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Surete Nationale and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo are back in Paris after the strange and dangerous case in Avignon recorded in 'Madrigal'.
The telegram from General von Schaumburg, Kommandant von Gross-Paris, had exhibited the usual Prussian gift for brevity: "Restaurant Gare de Lyon. Tell no one". Not even a Heil Hitler. Now here they are, stumbling around in the dark and the cold, St-Cyr bemoaning the lost glories of his youth. The pails of honey, complete with comb, wax and dead bees, bring a ray of sunshine to their gloomy lives; but half the shipment is missing.
Something, no doubt, to do with the telegram they received twenty-four hours before von Schaumburg's: "Body of Beekeeper found in Apiary near Pere-Lachaise Cemetery requires immediate and urgent attention. Heil Hitler".
Boemelburg this time, Hermann's boss and head of the Gestapo in France. Urgent means trouble, as dose the Wehrmacht and the Gestapo approaching the same situation from different directions. St-Cyr and Kohler are old hands at playing both ends against the middle, but this time even they could well be in over their heads.
Here is the latest in J Robert Janes's astonishingly original and gripping series, whose characters are growing richer and deeper with every outing.
