The Pale House, McCallin - B-

                                               In the second novel in this series, we find Reinhard back  in Sarajevo, but two years later. It's April 1945 and the Third Reich is on the verge of collapse. The focus of his investigation is an atrocity involving the murder of ten men, believed to have been assigned to a penal battalion. No one seems to rally care as death, destruction and imminent defeat surround the  Germans. The Ustase know there is no retreat for them and they are even more volatile and violent than they had been previously. Gregor ascertains that the Ustase have been killing Germans and assuming German identities, in an attempt to escape from Yugoslavia.  Once again, the phenomenal detail of the background fascinates