The Bridge Monkey

Whether you are fascinated by a good, old-fashioned mystery, foreign intrigue, high-seas adventure, terrorist plots, Army life, or the inside workings of a German police station, this is the book for youit has it all. And for those who have visited Heidelberg or would like to, The Bridge Monkey depicts an aspect of that city no tourist could hope to savor. The story opens with the discovery of a body in the castle gardens over-looking the ancient city. An early morning telephone call to the Heidelberg police sends Chief Detective Kaspar Altman on a search for the identity of the murdered man. His quest places him at odds with the American Military Police, the Detroit Mafia, a terrorist organization, and his own past as a German prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. Chief Altman wants to escape. He dreams of sliding safely into retirement, stealing off to the Vienna night life, and turning everything over to his assistant, a German-African woman with problems of her own. But Altman's dreams turn into nightmaresthe trail leads to a terrorist plot to blow up the American Military High School students at their spring prom in Heidelberg castle.