Victory Square

Steinhauer's series has won the highest praise and has been nominated for crime fiction's most esteemed prizes. Now he caps the series with a novel in which the People's Militia's first case comes full circle to torment all of the inspectors, including Emil Brod, now the chief, who as a young policeman arrested of one of the country's revolutionary leaders. Jerzy Mikhalec went to prison, but Emil was too young to understand what it meant to go up against someone so powerful-and win. Only now when he is days from retirement and spends more time looking over his shoulder does he know that what he did may get him-and others-killed.