Lily of the Field Mo Hayder This is the first book

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin

and the possible theft of a priceless edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

and in the cellars of Caerlyon he nurtures a new-found passion for fine wine

is found murdered

or fabricating new identities for people who need their histories erased

Lily of the Field Mo Hayder This is the first book'Observe in what an original world we are now living: how many men can you find in Europe who have never killed; or whom somebody does not wish to kill?' Vienna, 1934. Ten year old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans. Auschwitz, 1944.