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Blood Enemy  (Warsaw Quartet #4) by Douglas Jackson          ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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...

Blood Vengeance  (Warsaw Quartet #3 ) by Douglas Jackson         ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Investigator Jan Lalisz is surprised to find himself secretly taken from occupied Poland and dropped into a SOE and Commando training camp in Arisaig in the northwest Scottish highlands. It’s December, 1943. Why’s he here? It’s political. All about keeping the London Polish Resistance and their Warsaw counterpart on side. Churchill wants a Polish detective to investigate the death of the Polish resistance officer Krystina Kowolska, known as the Raven. Krystina’s been found hanging from a tree. Nothing really to see here but…? What Jan uncovers is not one but two murders, rumors, gossip and groups of people who have had free rein and are none too pleased to be called to account for anything. Blood vengeance is a complicated miasma of agents, of strong feelings and beliefs. Jan is deliberately lead away from the truth for many different reasons. He’s on a very tight timeline trying to solv...

Blood Sacrifice  (Warsaw Quartet #2) by Douglas Jackson         ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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 ...