TY - BOOK AU - McCallin,Luke AU - McCallin,Luke TI - The ashes of Berlin: the divided city T2 - A Gregor Reinhardt novel SN - 9781843448334 (trade paperback) U1 - 823.6 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Harpenden, Herts, UK PB - No Exit Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Germany KW - Fiction KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Intelligence officers KW - Armed Forces KW - Officers KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Published in the USA as The divided city; Published in the USA as The divided city; Colour illustrations and colour maps on inside covers N2 - World War II is over, and former German intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt has returned to Berlin. A year after Germany's defeat, he has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin's new masters. When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation uncovering a dangerous serial killer ER -