Honesty Is Free from Fear

Someday one main character will ask the other main character: “Herr Kramm, are we villains?” And then the second one—wiping blood from his hands—will answer: “Not today, Herr Spatz, not today!” But for now, the first main character is only a naive immigrant from a fictional country, where the attentive reader can easily recognize a cocktail of the Second and Third Reichs, seasoned with a dose of nasty magic. Mix it. Shake it. Serve it cold.