A new investigation for Jan Kalisz of the Warsaw Kripo

Blood Sacrifice (Warsaw Quartet #2) by Douglas Jackson        

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Investigator Jan Kalisz is a detective with the Warsaw Krupp. He continues his investigative life under deep cover, as a Nazi collaborator, whilst really an agent for the Armia Krajowa, the Home Army, Poland’s major resistance force. He has to be careful yet daring.

The tale centers around the final days of the Ghetto of Warsaw. The end is coming. The last Jews in the Ghetto are being rounded up and sent to places like Treblinka.

Kalisz has been investigating the murder of Axel Weiss, an accountant, the golden boy of the Gestapo. Weiss had been looking into Nazis who were feathering their own nest. The puzzling thing is Weiss has three identities.

Following that up puts Kalisz at odds with Kriminalassistent Hofle who before the war was a detective in Munich. Now he’s with the Krupp, when not moonlighting as an enforcer with  the soldiers rounding up the Jewish residents of Warsaw and the Ghetto.

This story has us wandering around Warsaw, crawling down holes and through sewers as Kalisz’s investigation continues even as he is near to unraveling. Stark and hard hitting.

So many heroic people, so many deaths. 

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Many thanks to the author and publisher.