Capon Folks

Hitler And His Two Highest-Ranking Deputies-Heinrich Mueller Head Of The Gestapo And Martin Bormann Deputy Reichsminister-Abscond To South America In May Of 1945. Berlin Lies In Ruins The War Close To The End. Embarrassed By Hitler'S Escape An Elaborate Hoax Is Set Up By The Allies And The Russians Leading The World To Believe The Chancellor Of Germany Is Dead In The Smoldering Wreckage Of The Bunker. Helga Heinlein Our Protagonist A German Jew Fleas Germany Before The Holocaust And Spends The War In Philadelphia Earning Her Laurels As A Landscape Painter. She Returns To A Postwar Berlin That Lies In Ruins. Needing A Job She Joins The Police Due To A Shortage In Manpower And By 1963 Becomes West Berlin'S Leading Police Detective. It Is April Fool'S Day 1963 And Lieutenant Helga Heinlein Berlin'S Leading Detective Is Taking A Run Through Berlin'S Grunewald Forest When She Stumbles Upon The Bodies Of Three Jewish Businessmen. The Political Establishment Is Shocked And She Receives An Order To Solve This Case Before Kennedy Comes To West Berlin On June 16. Within Days The President Of The Federal Police Presidium Is Indicted But Our Detective Smells A Cover-Up. With The Help Of Simon Wiesenthal The Viennese Nazi Hunter She Finds The Three Dead Men Are The Key To A Fraud Ring During Wwii That Leads Back To The Nazi High Command Part Of Which Seems To Be Alive And Well In 1963. In Her Zeal For Justice She Reunites With Missing Relatives But Uncovers A Conspiracy That Threatens The Free World.