THE WASTAGE
by Konrad Feichtinger · Vast Fiction
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About the book
Vienna, August 1859. The Empire is nine days from a treaty signing and an inspector of the Third Division catches a drowning nobody wants: an old man in the Winter Harbor basin, his pockets emptied and refilled, his flat sealed two hours before the body was found. Nate Mahr is a careful policeman with a stolen key-ring for a warrant and eleven days to work in. Clémence Rutledge is a New York stringer who has heard this rumor before and filed it as an old man's story. What Mahr finds has no name in any code he owns, and the question is not whether he can prove it but what a man does with a thing the law has no word for.