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Max finally made his way out of hell—literally, only to find past choices coming back to haunt him. After clawing his way back, Max is faced with the consequences of his past he can’t escape. He and his band of misfits are about to uncover the terrifying power behind Lilith’s fostered children. As they grow older, they’re becoming harder to hide from a world already on edge.

Max Tudor thought he'd left the world of deceit when he resigned from MI5 to become an Anglican priest. Then his bishop asks him to return to his Oxford college, St Luke's, to investigate the death of its chaplain, and Max realizes there's no leaving the past behind. At first, Max agrees with the official police verdict of death by natural causes. The Rev. Ace Graybill was as harmless a man as ever lived. It's difficult to see how he managed to cross anyone capable of murder.

In the final days of the Third Reich, with the historic city of Dresden on the brink of destruction, terrifying rumors spread about the Fright Man, a demonic killer who exploited the cover of a nighttime air raid siren to mutilate and kill a young nurse. Just as seasoned detective Max Heller begins investigating, the Fright Man kills again...

As the Nazis conquer Europe, Jewish teen Max and his parents flee persecution in Germany for Holland, where Max finds true friends and a life-altering romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max must escape to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents' deportation and murder, Max immediately enlists in the US Army. After basic training he is sent to Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he is trained in interrogation and counterintelligence.

Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. As World War I begins, Kelly enlists in the Royal Navy, hoping to win both the war and glory. But from the barbarous battles of Gallipoli to the nightmarish action of Antwerp, Kelly learns the trials a soldier must face: trials that will forge him into a man. As the epic battle of Jutland approaches, everything is at stake.

1917 kehrt der 21-jährige Max Heller verletzt und traumatisiert aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg zurück. Im von Hunger, Gewalt und politischen Unruhen geprägten Dresden sucht er nach einem Weg zurück ins Leben, nach Ablenkung, nach Liebe und nach einer Aufgabe. Die Konfrontation mit brutaler Bandenkriminalität, sein großer Gerechtigkeitssinn und der Rat seines Großvaters Gustav Heller, einem Kriminalrat a.D., führen ihn in den Polizeidienst. Als frischgebackener Schupo verliebt sich Heller bei einem Elbdampferausflug in die junge Karin. Doch der Standesunterschied scheint eine Beziehung unmöglich zu machen.

Two years after the firebombing that devastated the historic East German city, the suffering continues in the throes of a brutal winter. The wary and exhausted citizens scramble to survive, wolf packs of orphans scavenge for food, and Detective Max Heller is called to the scene of a savage murder. A Russian officer was stabbed to death, and not far from the frozen corpse is an abandoned backpack containing another man’s severed head.

Dresden im November 1944: Die Bevölkerung leidet unter den immer bedrohlicher werdenden Kriegsumständen - da wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche einer Krankenschwester gefunden. Schnell heißt es: Das war der Angstmann, der nachts durch die Stadt schleicht. Kriminalinspektor Max Heller hat bei der fieberhaften Suche nach dem Täter mit dem Kriegschaos zu kämpfen - aber auch mit seinem linientreuen Vorgesetzten. Und die Hoffnung, der Frauenmörder sei bei dem katastrophalen Bombenangriff im Februar 1945 umgekommen, zerschlägt sich.

Dresda, novembre 1944: un brutale assassino terrorizza una città dilaniata dalla guerra. La popolazione geme sotto i bombardamenti, costretta a terribili privazioni, e gli allarmi bomba sono l'unica certezza nella vita di tutti i giorni. L'ispettore investigativo Max Heller viene convocato sulla scena di un crimine e si trova di fronte al corpo selvaggiamente martoriato di una donna, un'infermiera del vicino ospedale. Ben presto, le voci cominciano a girare: è il Demone, il killer che di notte si aggira tra le rovine.

Wien 1928. Im Lainzer Tiergarten fallen Schüsse, unter einer Eiche steigt Rauch auf. Kurz darauf wird eine Frauenleiche entdeckt. Doch wer ist die Tote? Lange tappt die Polizei im Dunkeln. Erst als eine Moulage, ein Wachsmodell, des Gesichts angefertigt und veröffentlicht wird, kann die Frau identifiziert werden. Aber wer hat sie getötet? In der mondänen Wiener Welt der späten 1920er-Jahre begeben sich die Ermittler auf Mörderjagd. Ist er unter den Schleichhändlern zu finden, die ihre Netze zwischen Karlsbad, Wien und Triest spannen?