The Spring of Kasper Meier - Ben Fergusson
Chasing demons It's 1945 and someone is killing soldiers in Berlin. That might not sound terribly surprising, but the war is supposed to be over at this stage. These killings however seem to be connected to the atrocities that occurred in Berlin as Russian and allied troops arrived in the city and divided it up into French, Russian, British and American sectors, and soldiers from all those nations are being lured, ambushed and executed by an unknown killer. What has this to do with Kasper Meier? Like most Berliners who survived the war, he keeps alive doing small favours, trading goods and information for scarce basic provisions and medical supplies on the black market. Kasper Meier knows the benefits of lying low and minding your own business, but a young woman, Eva Hirsch - a rubble girl working on one of the clearing teams of Frau Beckmann - has approached him using blackmail to obtain information on a British pilot they are looking to find. As if that's not enough leverage,...