A INPLE NEW YORK CITY HOMICIDE, indistinguishable from hundreds of others in 1938: a spinster nurse is killed in her apartment, a suspect is caught convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured into the case and coerced by conscience into unraveling the complex setup that has landed an innocent man on Death Row, will soon find find this is a murder with tentackes that stretch far beyond the crime scene…to Nazi Germany, in Follwing it to the end leads him into a murder conspiracy of a scope that defies imagination.
Crim clouds are roiling over Berlin , where plans for a coup are secretly forming a cadre of Wehrmacht officers. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of military Intelligence, is gripped by paralysis over the choice he must make: join the plotters and violate value he holds as an officer, or betray them to the Gestapo and forsake the coun-try's last hope to avert utter destruction and shame. With no limits to Hitler's manic pursuit of territorial expansion, with crimes against his people lauded as a program of racial cleansing at the vanguard of the eugenics movement launched in the United States and Britain, the “Hour of the Cat “ looms when every German conscience must make a choice. When Canaris receives an order to assist in a sinis-ter covert operation on foreign shores, his hour has come.
Writing with masterful command of fact and fiction, Peter Quinn transports readers to a readers to pre-war New York and Berlin brimming with and consequence. With rights sold in four countries before publication, Hour of the Cat is a stunning achievement: suspenseful, hauntingly memorable, and brilliantly authentic.
