Alex Beer

Most of the remaining population of Vienna - a city scarred by World War I in which the grandeur of the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory - is surviving by its wits, living hand to mouth in a city rife with crime, prostitution, and grotesquely wounded beggars. There are shakedowns on every street corner, the black market is the only market, and shortages of vital goods create countless opportunities for unscrupulous operators. Into this cauldron...