Evil in High Places

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The gripping and atmospheric new thriller from the award-winning, million-copy-bestselling author.


THE CLOSER YOU GET, THE FURTHER YOU HAVE TO FALL . . .

Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.

A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels - Hitler's right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.

But this is a country on the brink of war, and corruption runs deep. In a search that will take him from high society to the city's darkest corners, Wolff will soon learn just how fine the line is between justice and jeopardy...

© Rory Clements 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics Review

Electrifying and atmospheric. Seb Wolff is a wonderful character: tough, smart, decent.
Conn Iggulden
Master of the wartime thriller
Financial Times
Atmospheric and gripping
The Times on MUNICH WOLF
Dramatic, pacy and assured . . .
Daily Mail on CORPUS
Enjoyable, bloody and brutish
The Guardian on MARTYR
A colourful history lesson . . . leavened by exciting narrative twists
The Sunday Telegraph on MARTYR
Beautifully done . . . alive and tremendously engrossing
Daily Telegraph on MARTYR
A masterpiece of spies, intrigue and political shenanigans
Sunday Express on NEMESIS

User Reviews

Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0
Enjoyable second adventure with Wolff, good array of characters and a decent plot, it did run low on steam in a couple of places but overall a good story.
LazloWoodbine 14/10/2025

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