Blood Sacrifice

by Douglas Jackson

January 1943. Warsaw. City of the dead. In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to supply them with weapons. But how will he fulfil his vow?
The murder of a German officer appears to provide an opportunity. For the victim is a man with multiple identities and one of those is a wealthy ghetto Jew. The hunt for the murderer draws Kalisz into the chaos of the ghetto, only to find a new, perilous mission awaiting him. SS death squads are not the only enemy the Jews fear. Can Kalisz catch the killer known as The Cannibal before he strikes again?

310 pages, Paperback

Published May 15, 2025

About the author

Aka James Douglas

Douglas Jackson turned a lifelong fascination for Rome and the Romans into his first novel, Caligula. He was born in Jedburgh, in the Scottish Borders and now lives in Bridge of Allan. He is an assistant editor at The Scotsman.

Reviews

[Christine Lapping · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good follow up to Blood Roses. Well researched on life and personalities in rhe Warsaw Ghetto and the despair and heroism of the last defenders. I just felt that the setup of how Investigator Kalisz ended up investigating in the Ghetto was very contrived and undermined the reality so well described of life under the Nazis.