num_pages: 180
description: Trier is famous for wine Romans and for being Germanys oldest city. So when a man is found dead with his body impossibly covered in a fungal rot the local authorities know they are out of their depth.Fortunately this is Germany where there are procedures for everything.Enter Investigator Tobias Winter whose aim is to get in deal with the problem and get out with the minimum of fuss personal danger and paperwork. With the help of frighteningly enthusiastic local cop Vanessa Sommer hes quick to link the first victim to a group of ordinary middle aged men  and to realise they may have accidentally reawakened a bloody conflict from a previous century. But the rot is still spreading literally and with the suspect list extending to people born before Frederick the Great solving the case may mean unearthing the citys secret magical history.. . . so long as that history doesnt kill them first.
language: English
title: The October Man
publisher: Orion Publishing Group