The Detour
Romano-Lax, Andromeda / Butler, Dan
Ernst Vogler is twenty-six years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer, the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Fuhrer. Vogler is to collect a famous Classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned over to Gestapo custody. It is a simple, three-day job. Things start to go wrong almost immediately. T...
