Sandman (St-Cyr and Kohler)
The premise of J. Robert Janes's mysterySandmanis both audacious  and intriguing: the heroes of this dark novel set during World War II are Jean Louis St-Cyr, a French inspector with the Sûreté National, and Hermann Kohler, a German  Gestapo agent. Set in Paris under the Vichy government, this novel's unlikely pair of  heroes are doing their level best to solve a murder spree by a serial killer who has  claimed his latest victim: an 11-year-old girl who might know him. Played out against the  backdrop of war, betrayal, and fear,Sandmanpresents an unblinking view of  cruelty and two strangely sympathetic officers of a corrupt government.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.