Mitteleuropa

<p><strong>Vienna the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire but in a world in which the First World War did not take place: a man disappears.</strong> Ludwig Pechstein of the Pechstein Security and Investigations Agency is asked to investigate. </p><p>The trail leads to gruesome secret <strong>chemical warfare </strong>research programmes a land commune in Switzerland <strong>smugglers</strong> of avante-garde art political <strong>radicals</strong> in the East End of London and a <strong>Zionist colony</strong> in German Central Africa.</p>