Book #1 from the series: The Spectral Detective

King in the Dark: Part Two — Swan's Song

Second Part of Book One of the Spectral Detective Series

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King in the Dark Part 2: Swan’s Song

Washington, D.C., summer 1945. The war in Europe is won, but for Captain Arthur Raphael King, the real battle has only just begun.

Blinded by an explosion in a Thuringian castle, King now sees what others cannot — spectral auras, echoes of the past, and the slow uncoiling of secrets buried beneath the capital’s marble veneer. When a Nazi night-vision prototype surfaces in the hands of a battle-scarred GI turned gangster, King is part of a lethal game in the shadowy streets of a victory-drunk city.

As VJ Day fireworks light the sky, an assassin’s bullet is meant for a well-connected man. King finds himself in the sights of powerful forces, criminal and political, cane in one hand, coin in the other. Federal Agents, spies, and rival mob factions close in. Beneath the elegant Swan River Club, something far darker festers.

With Maggie Clark watching his every move, King must navigate a world where light and darkness have traded places. Old debts, new friends, and enemies force him to ask: how much of what he now sees is truth, and how much is the darkness looking back?

Some men return from war broken. Arthur King returns, seeing too much. Can a blind man see his way to save the day?