Philip Kovacs, a teacher in Paris, returns to his flat to find the smell of his own fear in the air. Nearby, a woman at the tomb of Victor Noir, a 19th-century journalist, leaves a letter bearing Kovacs's name in the hat lying beside Noir's effigy. F...
Set vividly in a future city, this tale of murder and corruption reaches back into Vienna's darkest past--Hitler's dream of a master race--to render a tale of human evil never fully conquered. A first novel. Reprint....