Prague 1913. Kisch and the World War On a cold spring morning in 1913, the river is ablaze. A burning ship drifts down the Vltava, terrifying the people of Prague. Just moments before, the ambitious Colonel Redl, a seasoned and cunning agent of the Austro-Hungarian secret service, had been celebrating one of his orgies on board. When the air itself begins to burn one night, crime reporter Egon Erwin Kisch and his colleague Lenka Weißbach intensify their investigation. What game is the enigmatic Redl playing? And what if the earth itself catches fire? Martin Becker and Tabea Soergel take the most famous espionage case of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy as the starting point for a gripping crime story on the eve of the First World War. Biography (Martin Becker) Martin Becker, born in 1957 in the southern highlands of Tanzania, attended an English boarding school there. At the age of ten, he emigrated with his family to Germany. He spent his youth in Gemmingen and Büsingen am Rhein, where, after graduating from high school, he began his professional career in Switzerland. After completing his civilian service in Heidelberg, Becker moved to Munich. He currently lives near Landsberg am Lech and works freelance in the greater Munich area. New product