Occupied Poland in WWII

Blood Enemy (Warsaw Quartet #4) by Douglas Jackson         

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The quartet of novels depicting a police detective in occupied Warsaw during WWII is concluded with Blood Enemy.

Jackson has once again delved into archives and lost places of the era to bring the story of the many parties acting in Poland.

We have the Polish resistance (the Armia Krajowa), Jews from the ghettos of Europe brought to Poland, the Jewish resistance inside the death camps, the brutality of the Nazis, the Polish youth resistance trying for when their day to rise up comes, the general populace, and the advancing Russians.

It’s dangerous, confusing and terrible.

Investigator Jan Kalisz goes undercover into Auschwitz-Birkenau and the gruesomeness of that place is fully on display.

Karl is actually a resistance spy and works to maintain his cover, and that of his beloved wife Maria, who is a nurse with the resistance, and his son Stefan who is caught up in secret Youth movement and the vision of a free Poland

A searing and believable novel of this time in our world.

Jackson’s very thorough research as explained in the authors notes gives legs to this embattled tale.

A Canelo ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.