For three months, Inspector August Emmerich has been on the trail of Veit Kolja, the head of a large-scale black market smuggling operation that supplies people with basic needs that remain scarce in a city still devastated by World War I. Emmerich dreams of a reassignment to the elite division that handles homicides and hopes to showcase his deductive skills after his inexperienced new assistant stumbles across a corpse in the woods. The coroner and Emmerich's boss, District Inspector Leopold Sander, are eager to label the death a suicide, even after a second body turns up. Emmerich resists Sander's directives to devote himself to the smuggling ring, even as he grapples with debilitating pain from a war wound as well as a devastating development in his personal life.
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ISBN: 9781609454722 (pbk.)
Physical Description:319 pages ; 21 cm.print
Publisher:New York, N.Y. :Europa Editions,2018.
General Note: Translated from the German.Original title: Der zweite Reiter. Ein fall für August Emmerich -- Title page verso.