Black Ice Requiem

A thin red wound, a rectangle of yellow light, and a barn outside Prien am Chiemsee where moss climbs the northern wall like a cracked windshield. Henrik Falk bleeds into the cold while he watches a garage he should have burned years ago. Drawn back to Bavaria by a film canister showing his father's last minutes and the reappearance of a syndicate handler who should have stayed buried, Henrik is forced to coordinate with federal contacts, a courier, and an extraction team he can no longer fully trust. His sister-in-law Lena warns him by phone. His brother Stefan claims ignorance. A silver Porsche idles where it should not. A drone SUV circles the property while a drone pilot feeds coordinates to men who shoot first. Konrad Brandt's housekeeper knows too much, and Brandt himself is only a sommelier cover away from a sniper's round. At the center of the wreckage stands a hooded figure, and somewhere in the dark, a young man named Erik Falk , Nyx to his enemies , has already chosen the ambush over the family. As the snow piles on the sagging eastern roof and the federal officers close their perimeter, Henrik must decide whether to trade the footage for his brother's life, his nephew's soul, or his own return to the syndicate that made him. Some requiems are sung. This one will be paid for in blood.