In the dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past.
And as the evidence--and bodies--pile up, Liebermann must reconsider his own path, the one that led him away from the miraculous and toward a life of the mind..
The doctor is drawn into an urban underworld that hosts and hides virulent racists on one side and followers of kabbalah on the other.
Max Liebermann learns that both victims were vocal members of a shadowy anti-Semitic group, he turns his gaze to the city\'s close-knit Hasidic community.
But when psychoanalyst Dr.
Could the killer be mentally ill, someone the victims came into contact with? Some are even blaming the murders on the devil.
Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt is baffled.
On opposite sides of the city, two men are found beheaded on church grounds.
In Freud\'s dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past.
In the dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past