The German

US: Lethe Press, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Set during the height of World War II, The German examines the effect a ser ies of ritualistic murders has on a small, Texas community. A killer preys on the young men of Barnard, Texas, leaving cryptic notes written in German . As the panic builds all eyes turn toward a quiet man with secrets of his own, who is trying to escape a violent past. Ernst Lang fled Germany in 1934. Once a brute, a soldier, a leader of the N azi party, he has renounced aggression and embraces a peaceful obscurity. B ut Lang is haunted by an impossible past. He remembers his own execution an d the extremes of sex and violence that led to it. He remembers the men he led into battle, the men he seduced, and the men who betrayed him. But are these the memories of a man given a second life, or the delusions of a luna tic? Winner of the Lambda Literary Award! Winner Il Posto Nero (The Black Spot): Best Foreign Language Book A finalist for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award! A finalist for an EDGE Award A finalist for the TLA Video Award Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Advocate. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Lambda-winner Thomas (The Dust of Wonderland) sets this powerful thriller in a small Texas town in 1944. As a mysterious killer preys on the community's young men--leaving pro-Nazi notes inside the victims' mouths--the frightened residents cast blame on the area's sizable German population. Their chief suspect is Ernst Lang, a gay ex-soldier who fled Germany years earlier. Lang has been an.