Description

 Winner of the Hammett Prize It is 1946, and Adam Miller has arrived at Venice to go to his widowed mother and attempt to your investment horrors he's experienced as an U.S. Army war crimes investigator in Germany. Nevertheless when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish girl scarred by her disastrous encounters during World War II, he's compelled to face another Venice, a city still at war with itself, haunted by atrocities it'd rather forget. Everybody, including his momis suave fresh Venetian suitor, hasbeen sacrificed by the profession, and Adam finds herself in the heart of the web of intrigue, deception, and unexpected ethical problems.