SYNOPSIS:

Amid the bombed-out ruins of 1947 Berlin, a serial killer is on the loose. Calling himself the Geröllkönig – the Rubble King – in a sick parody of Goethe’s classic horror poem, Der Erlkönig, the killer strikes first on Halloween...specifically targeting children for one gruesome abduction and murder after another. With local authorities vanquished and nonexistent, and the occupying Allied armies increasingly divided by growing Cold War rivalries, it’s up to American correspondent Georgette Avery – and her reluctant ally, drunken, one-legged former Kriminalpolizei detective Max Kiefer – to stop the killings.