CesareCharyn's blunt, brilliantly crafted prose bubbles with the pleasure of nailing life to the page in just the right words. . . . Cesare is provocative, stimulating and deeply satisfying. Washington Post On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen year old German naval sub cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the