title: Fetch the Devil: The Sierra Diablo Murders and Nazi Espionage in America
author:  Clint Richmond 
description: The most shocking conclusion to come from the autopsies of the mother and daughter found brutally murdered in Texas in 1938, after their car trip alone was mysteriously interrupted, was that they had been missing for four days but dead for only two. Someone had not just murdered Hazel Frome and her 23-year-old daughter, Nancy, but tortured them first. But who? Richmond, delving deeply into an extremely cold case, has found evidence that Nazi agents, believing these women held information about Atlas Powder Company, a San Francisco explosives manufacturing firm, targeted and stopped the women, interrogated them brutally, and then left their bodies in the desert. Richmond uses recently declassified FBI files to, if not solve the case, point a finger at an international Nazi spy ring operating in the U.S. and the fact that the Roosevelt administration was aware that American industry was being spied upon. This is a detailed portrait of two independent womens demise, a dogged but thwarted investigation, and the prewar infiltration of U.S. industry by a ring of German spies. --Eloise Kinney
zlib_text: > > The Keep
  
  Series:
  
  
  The Adversary Cycle [1]  
  Published:
  
  
  2008  
  Rating:
  
  
  ★★★  
  Tags:
  
  
  Horror, Fiction, Horror fiction, General, Mystery, Fiction - Horror, suspense,
  Horror - General, Mystery Detective - General, Mystery Detective, World War;
  1939-1945, Transylvania (Romania), Nazis  
  Horrorttt Fictionttt Horror fictionttt Generalttt Mysteryttt Fiction -
  Horrorttt suspensettt Horror - Generalttt Mystery Detective - Generalttt
  Mystery Detectivettt World War; 1939-1945ttt Transylvania (Romania)ttt
  Nazisttt
  
  
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  EDITORIAL REVIEW:
  
  Something is murdering my men.”
  
  Thus reads the message received from a Nazi commander stationed in a small
  castle high in the remote Transylvanian Alps. Invisible and silent, the enemy
  selects one victim per night, leaving the bloodless and mutilated corpses
  behind to terrify its future victims.
  
  When an elite SS extermination squad is dispatched to solve the problem, the
  men find something that's both powerful and terrifying. Panicked, the Nazi