Operation Vienna

In a city on the brink of ruin, a single spark could ignite a
continent.

Vienna, 1931.

When a wealthy American is found dead in a burning car in the Vienna
Woods, police quickly dismiss it as suicide. But ambitious foreign
correspondent Esme Carmichael is tipped off that it was murder. She
summons historian Archie Laverick to the Austrian capital, where - still
scarred by the Great War and under the guise of researching a famed
general - he plunges with Esme into a perilous hunt for the truth.

Their investigation cuts through the glittering façades of a fragile
nation. As the catastrophic failure of Austria's largest bank threatens
to throw Europe into chaos, Archie and Esme must untangle a web of
illicit affairs and stolen identities, navigating the treacherous,
gossip-fuelled world of Vienna's elite journalists to unmask a cunning
killer hiding in plain sight.

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