New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh Inspector Troy novel, one which spans the years from 1934 to 1948."The book follows two characters Meret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. . . it seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel's close." Author's note. 380 pp.