Age: 26 Marital Status: Single Born: Czernowitz, Bukovina (Austria-Hungary); Jewish Family: Brother Paul (presumed dead), Father (Austrian military doctor), Mother Languages: German (mother tongue), English, Hungarian, Serbo–Croatian Profession: Violinist Traveling Companion: Her loyal Siberian Husky, Max

Beautiful. Smart. Young. Angry. The Austrian Anna Wolff is jaded beyond her years, prodigiously talented and more than a bit suspect of the motives of the men she meets. Fresh from a virtuoso violin performance at the Paris Opera House where she dazzled the aristocracy with her interpretations of Mozart and Liszt, Anna and her faithful dog Max seem to embody the carefree glamour of international travel.

But Anna is haunted by the death of her adored older brother—an army cadet, presumed killed in a secret mission, and estranged from her father. A cold and cynical Austrian intelligence officer with a taste for music and culture, Dr. Wolff considers his work an ugly business, and has tried to shield his children from it. He has failed…

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