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The battle at Stalingrad during World War II has been called the bloodiest campaign in the history of war. Success was measured in meters, and corpses piled high amid the charred wreckage of the Russian city. In this grisly setting, David L. Robbins stages an unforgettable contest. On the Russian side is Zaitsev, the Hare, who has been trained since childhood in hunting and tracking. As a sniper, he kills a German with each bullet. Berlin has sent its best marksman, the Headmaster, to find and kill the Hare. The Headmaster's accuracy is phenomenal, and his cunning is legendary.

South Korea, 1974: A young Korean woman is found strangled to death on the frozen banks of the Sonyu River with only a carefully calligraphed poem on her person. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, agents in the US Eighth Army CID, are called in by the formidable KNP detective Gil Kwon-up to investigate. As they begin to investigate, George and Ernie come into direct contact with the US Army's Second Infantry Division, a disciplined and often brutal force.

The world was not prepared for this story, a conspiracy hatched in the highest levels of the British government. A rogue Minister of Defense plans to turn soldiers into blood-thirsty animals—and Holmes and Watson may be among their first victims. The adventure starts when Holmes is warned away from investigating Jack the Ripper’s heinous crimes. Despite Holmes’ well-known skills, he is sidelined. He must content himself with a straightforward case, finding a bolting beau, the result of a simple lovers’ quarrel. But that “romance gone wrong” is really the key to a nasty secret.

Der Schongauer Henker Jakob Kuisl reist im Februar 1672 zum Scharfrichtertreffen nach München. Erstmals hat ihn der Rat der Zwölf dazu eingeladen - eine große Ehre. Kuisl hofft, unter den Ratsmitgliedern einen Ehemann für seine Tochter Barbara zu finden. Die Henkerstochter ist verzweifelt: Sie ist ungewollt schwanger und traut sich nicht, ihre Notlage dem Vater zu offenbaren. Dann kommt in München eine Reihe von Morden an jungen Frauen ans Licht, und Kuisl wird um Hilfe bei den Ermittlungen gebeten. Alle Morde tragen die Handschrift eines Scharfrichters. Der Verdacht fällt auf den Rat der Zwölf.