A Gentle Axe Paul Waters where everyone has an agenda

where everyone has an agenda

And just who is the sinister Collector who seems to be shadowing Nick

What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator

she is to be sent to the South Seas on a scientific expedition

A Gentle Axe Paul Waters where everyone has an agendaFresh off the case of a deranged student who murdered his landlady, noted police investigator Porfiry Petrovich barely takes a breath before a bizarre and very grisly double murder lands him back on the streets of the tsarist St. Petersburg he knows all too well. The sardonic sleuth follows a trail from the drinking dens of the Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society a hunt that leads him to a conclusion even he will find