From Publishers Weekly
One way to keep a series alive is to make it a continuous story, to be sliced off like a party sandwich. That's what Savarin seems to be doing in his predictable but tasty Müller and Pappenheim thrillers. A month after the pair saved an elite American unit's commander from being killed by a secret organization called the Semper in
Hunter's Rain (2004), Hauptkommisar Jens Müller, a rich German cop who drives a Porsche Turbo, and his sharp-tongued, overweight working-class assistant, Pappenheim, are still hot on the trail of the Semper, which has worked its way into all aspects of German life, and plan to attack it with full force. As Müller picks up more reasons to believe that the Semper killed his parents in a fake plane accident when he was a child, he and Pappi find that the plotters don't plan on sitting back and letting their fates overtake them. How much longer Savarin keeps up his sandwich-making probably depends on his imagination and the interest of readers who still like their thrillers to be part of a grand old tradition.
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From Booklist
German Hauptkommissar Jens Muller is part of a special Berlin-based investigative unit that takes on cases "no one else will touch with a barge pole." One of those cases involves an ongoing battle against the sinister Semper organization, whose goal is to penetrate the highest echelons of German society and eventually to assume control over the country. Muller's own experience with Semper has a distinctly personal tone. The organization was responsible for murdering his parents when he was just a boy. When Muller and his partner, Pappenheim, learn that Semper was responsible for brutally killing one of Muller's colleagues and that the group is trying to produce a mutant DNA string that could wipe out entire races, genders, or nationalities, they set out to eliminate members of the rogue organization, one by one. The first few chapters may prove a bit baffling to those not familiar with earlier books in this series, but patient readers will be rewarded with a gripping, action-packed thriller that will keep them riveted till the very last page.
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