Two high profile victims - a former Left-wing radical turned environmentalcampaigner and a geneticist researching the possibility of inheritedmemory - are found murdered within 24 hours of each other. Both men havebeen scalped. Forensic tests reveal that single red hairs left at each scene belong toneither victim, but were cut from the same head - twenty years earlier.Jan Fabel and his murder team find themselves under political and mediapressure to track down a killer whom the press has already christened 'TheHamburg Hairdresser'. Fabel is caught in a web of intrigue, obsession and revenge thatseemingly spans sixteen centuries. He must discover the crucial linkbetween an ancient mummified body, a long-disbanded terrorist group andits infamous leader and a killer who believes he has been reincarnated toexact a terrible revenge on those who betrayed him in a previous life. Praise for Brother Grimm