CHAPTER 5
Kruger's secretary, Sonia, took a call from upstairs. The executive floor. The tone sergeant-major like: DCS Kruger was wanted in the chief commissioner's office. At once. A flustered Sonia hunted him down.
He arrived at the top floor puffing as if having taken the stairs all the way up. A secretary showed him into a meeting room. Henri "call me CC" Winkler, head of police for Munich, and Ulrich Diel, the director of criminal investigations, sat at the long conference table, waiting impatiently.
The position of top policeman was a political appointment and CC had held office for almost a decade. He came from a family which had been active in local politics since time immemorial and belonged to the bedrock of the Bavarian ruling party. It was common knowledge that he had been a
