Conspirators: A Novel

Beautifully written intricate and entrancing.--Jaroslaw Anders Los Angeles Times Book Review. Galicia Austria-Hungary 1913. In the castle of a frontier town on the border between Europe and the East the corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire and his province. When a member of his own family is murdered the count gives broad police powers to his spymaster Jakob Tausk: a brilliant young Jew whose ruthless war on terror extends into every corner of the province and beyond enlisting union organizers financiers aristocrats and their servants and a young novelist and playwright newly arrived in the Vienna of Franz Josef and Freud hungry for literary success.