In this the third volume of the Metropol trilogy there is a sudden twist of fate: justice becomes injustice, the hunter is now the hunted. Lilly Winter's love for the Gestapo Officer, Wolf Manhardt, grows, but then he is arrested by the Gestapo.

It is February 1945. At the Hotel Metropol the world has been turned upside down. Where they once shouted, "Our boots kick the enemy's face in", they are now wishing they were Red Army soldiers. Gestapo Officer, Wolf Manhardt, is also feeling the winds of change. Nothing is as it was, justice is injustice. "For every triviality there are long-winded protocols, but where we are concerned, nothing happens. I wouldn't be at all surprised if one day a claim that the Gestapo never even existed in Vienna, were to be made." And through all of this his mistress looms both bright and dark, her love for him growing ever deeper in the midst of all this chaos. Suddenly, the hunter becomes the hunted as the Gestapo take their best officer into custody.

"Hotel Metropol: The Arrival": "Very convincing" (Die Presse)

"Lehner succeeds in an unsurpassed portrayal of characters." (Kleine Zeitung)

About the author:

Fritz Lehner was born in 1948 in the Austrian province of Upper Austria. He is a graduate of the Vienna Film and Television Academy and is a script-writer and director. He is a member of the German Academy for the Performing Arts and of the Berlin College of Art. Some of Lehner´s films include: "Schöne Tage" (Beautiful Days), script and direction; "Mit meinen heißen Tränen" (With My Burning Tears), script and direction; "Jedermanns Fest" (Jedermann´s Feast), script and direction. He received the Austrian "Österreichischen Volksbildungspreis" award in 1979 and 1986; the "Prix Italia" in 1982 and 1983; the "Adolf-Grimme-Preis in Gold" award in 1982 and 1986; the "Landeskulturpreis Oberösterreich für Literatur" award in 1992 and the "Großen Diagonale-Preis" award in 2002. His debut novel "Я" was published by Seifert Verlag in 2003.