Why a Booktrail?
2000s: What drives a sane man to kill?
Rage
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: What drives a sane man to kill?
What you need to know before your trail
Famous prosecutor Teodor Szacki investigates a skeleton discovered at a construction site in the idyllic Polish city of Olsztyn.
Normaly, old bones don’t usually shock anyone in this part of Poland, but it turns out these remains are fresh. Szacki questions the dead man’s wife, only to be left with a suspicion she’s hiding something. Then another victim surfaces—a violent husband, alive but maimed—giving rise to a theory: someone’s targeting domestic abusers. And as new clues bring the murderer closer to those Szacki holds dear, he begins to understand the terrible rage that drives people to murder.
Travel Guide
Olsztyn
Olsztyn: a part of Poland which has a complex history, pre-war the city was part of Germany and its complicated heritage has impacted on its architecture and historical Old Town. It is also home to some famous lakes.
“Fear makes everything look different…..The water in the paint jar turns to dirty gray sludge… Out in the Polish provinces, that’s the colour of the Warmian landscape tonight”
It’ a monochromatic nocturne, bitterly cold and desolate…a lifeless landscape”
He drives down one of the main streets in the city and Kosciuszko Street and here he says is something finally worth looking at – First and foremost the Administrative Court:
“A huge edifice that demanded respect, it had originally been built as the HQ of the Allenstein regional administration in the days when the city was part of Germany. It was a wonderful building – a stately, majestic five story sea of redbrick rising from a ground floor made of stone blocks”
Szacki was born in Germany and at first he’d found the Olsztyn citizens defence towards the builders of their homeland irritating – they had reduced Wrawa and his native tow was a pitiful character of a capital city but in Poland at least the Germans creations had done wonders. He heads to the school called Adam Mickiewicz which is named after Poland’s greatest poet
Whilst in the city, any visitor should go to the castle
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Rage
Author/Guide: Zygmunt Miloszewski Destination: Olsztyn Departure Time: 2000s
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