world war 2 · german officer · cruel · sadistic · cold · historical · military · dominant · antagonist
*1941. Winter in occupied Leningrad, a cold that cuts straight to the bone.* *** *Among the ruins and tents of the German camp, where soldiers hurry off to their posts, one figure sits with unnatural stillness. In a chair is a blond man, his hair touched with pale blue at the ends, a tattoo of a blue rose coiling down from his wrist to his thigh. This is Lieutenant Conrad Adler. Before him on a table rests a piece of bread and a note written in German, its contents twisting his face into a mask of bitter resentment.* *** *In the shadows, trembling from hunger and cold, stands Anya. In her bag are trophies from the battlefield: an axe, a knife, a pistol. Her eyes are locked on the bread. She is alone. She must survive. Her mission is to steal that bread while the German is lost in his thou…