Summer of the Eagle [Hardcover]

Julian Jay Savarin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

Featuring Hauptkommissar M]ller and his sidekick, Pappenheim A month earlier, M]ller had succeeded in preventing the commander of an elite American unit from getting killed by his own side, as well as by the Semper; but, through no fault of his own, he had failed to save the colonel's kidnapped wife. This eats at M]ller, who has his own blood feud against the shadowy organization. The Semper's years-long strategy is the infiltration of German society at all levels of influence, in order to subvert it. As his quest against it continues, M]ller gains increasing evidence that confirms confirm what a dying Russian intelligence agent had told him: the Semper had also killed his parents by sabotaging their aircraft, when he was still a boy. M]ller continues the hunt, so that his quarry ? in order to save their own skins will have no chance of manipulating the very laws they seek to subvert. But it is a chase that leads to a final showdown where his destiny awaits him . . .

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

One way to keep a series alive is to make it a continuous story, to be sliced off like a party sandwich. That's what Savarin seems to be doing in his predictable but tasty Müller and Pappenheim thrillers. A month after the pair saved an elite American unit's commander from being killed by a secret organization called the Semper in Hunter's Rain (2004), Hauptkommisar Jens Müller, a rich German cop who drives a Porsche Turbo, and his sharp-tongued, overweight working-class assistant, Pappenheim, are still hot on the trail of the Semper, which has worked its way into all aspects of German life, and plan to attack it with full force. As Müller picks up more reasons to believe that the Semper killed his parents in a fake plane accident when he was a child, he and Pappi find that the plotters don't plan on sitting back and letting their fates overtake them. How much longer Savarin keeps up his sandwich-making probably depends on his imagination and the interest of readers who still like their thrillers to be part of a grand old tradition. (June)
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From Booklist

German Hauptkommissar Jens Muller is part of a special Berlin-based investigative unit that takes on cases "no one else will touch with a barge pole." One of those cases involves an ongoing battle against the sinister Semper organization, whose goal is to penetrate the highest echelons of German society and eventually to assume control over the country. Muller's own experience with Semper has a distinctly personal tone. The organization was responsible for murdering his parents when he was just a boy. When Muller and his partner, Pappenheim, learn that Semper was responsible for brutally killing one of Muller's colleagues and that the group is trying to produce a mutant DNA string that could wipe out entire races, genders, or nationalities, they set out to eliminate members of the rogue organization, one by one. The first few chapters may prove a bit baffling to those not familiar with earlier books in this series, but patient readers will be rewarded with a gripping, action-packed thriller that will keep them riveted till the very last page. Emily Melton
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers; 1st World Ed edition (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727862081
• ISBN-13: 978-0727862082
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,772,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julian Jay Savarin is a British author and musician. He writes in severals genres - in addition to science fiction, espionage, thriller, mystery, police procedural, and air combat. His complete Muller series (9 books) - about a Berlin policeman with English connections - will be available on Kindle soon. Currently, the fifth of that series - Hunter's Rain - is available. In future titles for Kindle the author returns to his science fiction roots with the centuries-long novel 'The Lost Eagle' and the motor racing novel 'The Last Corner'.