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| Author | Craig Russell |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Jan Fabel |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | UK |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 384 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-09-180014-5 |
| Followed by | Brother Grimm |
Blood Eagle is a novel by Craig Russell. First published in 2005, it is the first in a series[1] of crime novels set in Hamburg, Germany, and featuring Kriminalhauptkommissar Jan Fabel. Blood Eagle, as well the follow-up novels in the series, are characterized by their use of history, mythology and legend. In Blood Eagle, Fabel hunts a serial-killer who uses an ancient Viking ritual of human sacrifice, the blood eagle, to kill his victims.