The Devil's Look by Craig Russell

The devil's look
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With his well-known virtuosity to locate black genre plots in the most unsuspected time in history, Craig russell returns to a few days of sinister chicha calm in Europe. The interwar period looms over the precipice of the second time that weapons and madness will assault the old continent. In 1935 many signs already point to disaster. Especially once Hitler began to manifest himself as the ominous leader, still in the making for his most ignominious work.

Old Czechoslovakia was approaching the years when Nazi Germany would take it as its own. And Prague lived with that perpetual touch of the most existential romanticism in a society strangely more democratic than any of the surrounding countries.

Russell leads us there to meet the devil who roamed the old continent like a specter about to land. A demon that took advantage of the moment (until the full madness of Hitler), the service of the most wicked minds. Because in the castle of the Eagles we run into some murderers locked up and placed at the service of science for research on evil. A field of study in which we are presented with the mix between the neurological and the behavioral, the chemical and the spiritual.

Viktor Kosárev is a psychiatrist from that school at the beginning of the XNUMXth century whose praxis rode between the traditional resources of unbridled electroshocks until the investigation of novel resources ... His six patients, all of them with abominable blood crimes, will undergo his revolutionary treatments.

But against the devil it is not so easy to face science, research or experiments as a resource.

Thus, soon Viktor will connect a new case of serial murders in Prague with his investigations. The implausible will then take shape. Amid the misty feeling of confusion and tension, filled with that scenery of the beautiful Prague, full of backlit charms, we follow next to Viktor the shadow of «Leather Apron». Because only he can guide clues, even though they splash him with that unpleasant feeling of complete involvement.

You can now buy the novel The Devil's Look, the new book by Craig Russell, here:

The devil's look
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