Blood Eagle
(Craig Russell)
Review by Armando Martinez as submitted to
The Hamburg Express www.thehamburgexpress.com
Craig Russell?s Blood Eagle
soars through Hamburg from places like behind the scenes at the criminal
police headquarters on the Reeperbahn to the Mayors office in city hall
on Jungfernstieg and beyond screeching out the history of Hamburg?s
surroundings. During this tour, the so-called English commissioner,
who is actually half-Scottish (like the author) hunts a serial religious
psychopath, with followers amongst Hamburg?s elite. This illusive
killer makes ritual sacrifices of women that truly lend this piece a
darker shade of terror.
As an added bonus, Blood Eagle
also deeply considers the complex make up of modern Germany. The book
touches upon current issues like the involvement of the German BND in
international covert anti-terrorist operations as recent as 911, 1972
at the Olympic Games in Munich and back to its beginning in the Cold
War. Blood Eagle also reaches even much further back into the religious
Danish Viking roots of the Northern-German identity and its potential
affects upon Hamburg?s traditionally liberal government shifting towards
conservatism. Blood Eagle also consistently handles issues of identity
as it portrays its various ethnic or non-German or rather partly German
characters struggling against prejudices or to be accurately classified
at the very least.
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