Europe in the 1990s - a nervous place where power shifts as swiftly as an Alpine avalanche. Brooklyn PI Tony Casella, on the run and lying low in the Austrian Alps, just wants to avoid trouble. But when a good-time American blonde and a rich Japanese mogul are crushed in an avalanche, events snowball. Casella wants nothing to do with it. But with the CIA on his tail he may not have a choice. On a wild trek from Vienna to Prague and Budapest, across a new Europe where economic forces are murderously taking shape, Casella is forced on a desperate hunt for information some would kill for. Are killing for... 'This witty, near perfect caper makes merry with European cuisine, customs, currencies and politics' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'Knock-out fun, top-drawer plotting. This'll burn away the night' KIRKUS REVIEWS