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1945: The war could soon be over but there is another war just over the horizon
The Dead Don’t Bleed
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It’s 1945 and the war could soon be over but the threat of a whole new war, using atomic weapons and involving the Soviet spies who covet them.
When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found in one of DC’s back alleys, Lt. Voigt is called in to investigate. This is his first murder and it’s not going to be an easy one by all means. He soon finds that he has to go under cover and that even the shadows of the city are hard to hide in.
This war goes further than any other as it involves a defecting German physicist, a top secret lab in New Mexico, and Uranium-235 to name but a few.
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The alleys of Washington DC are unlike those of any other city. Small carriage houses, one after another, abut the cobbled of clay backways”
“The alleys intersect, creating labyrinths as complex as a casbah”
Welcome to Washington. Welcome to the Washington of dark shadows, spies and something altogether more awful still. Where nobody who lives here ventures out in the dark slums, a place caught between the city and the suburbs
Time and place is evoked with fine detail from the old and no longer existing cigarette brands, the old diners, way people dressed and the nuances of the time. All blended well into one nostalgic nod to a time where the language, the colour and very fabric of the time is evoked with style.
You can tell a historian wrote this, but one who can turn his hand to fiction and really bring a period of history to life!
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: The Dead Don’t Bleed
Author/Guide: David F. Krugler Destination: Washington DC Departure Time: 1946
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