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The murderer who came in from the cold
The murderer who came in from the cold
On his morning walk a major industrialist is beaten up and executed in cold blood. The trail leads Kiran Mendelsohn straight into the political minefield, organized Russian crime. far back into the German past – and directly to his nemesis.
n spring 2010, the 72-year-old industrial magnate Friedrich Lautenschläger gets abused and shot in cold blood during his morning walk along the Wannsee lake in Berlin. The assassination throws Berlin’s upper echelons of power into a panic and frenzy. Lautenschläger, the linchpin of German-Russian industrial trade, was a regular guest in the Chancellery and Ministry of Economics.
In this precarious situation, the senior public prosecutor in charge asks her old friend Kiran Mendelsohn for help. He is to assist the hectically built special investigative team and its extremely unorthodox leader Bolko Blohm as profiler and co-investigator. Kiran is anything but enthusiastic about this request. After a semi-traumatic incident during his training abroad with the FBI in Quantico, he had happily abandoned investigations out in the field, content to teach at the Federal Criminal Police Academy and accompany investigations rather from his desk. Now he has to hunt down a cold-blooded professional murderer, under constant pressure from above and annoying scrutiny of the Federal Intelligence Service. outside his self-imposed isolation right into the shark-pool.
It soon becomes apparent that this murder is closely linked to the activities of the Russian mafia based in Germany – indicated not only by forensics, but also through information Blohm and Mendelsohn receive from a suspiciously forthcoming godfather of the Berlin Russian mafia.
More dead bodies appear in what looks like brutal gang-war on Berlin territory, increasing pressure on the investigators. Through dark channels, material from Russian secret service provides a first clue to the true identity of the killer. Once Kiran’s old mentor from the BKA searches his private archives, the team finally finds out why Friedrich Lautenschläger had to die in such a brutal way. And face the person running riot in their town.
