11 July 2022
Every now and again, if an author is exceptionally lucky, a character steps into a book fully formed and sheds a special kind of narrative glow on more or less everything. One such godsend is Werner Nehmann, who co-anchors Katastrophe, the latest in my Spoils of War series. His first outing was in Book Five - Last Flight to Stalingrad. Nehmann was born Mikhail Magalashvili in the wilds of Svaneti, a lawless mountain area in the wilds of Georgia, but self-rebadged as a German journalist of genius he quickly won the hearts of countless readers, thus earning himself a return for another fictional bloodbath.
