From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake comes a gripping true story of murder, war and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence 'I absolutely devoured The Einstein Vendetta ' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rank ' DAILY EXPRESS 'Harding evokes time and place beautifully , while paying forensic attention to detail . The result is a slow burn of cliff-hangers to keep the pages turning ' SPECTATOR ' The Einstein Vendetta will tug at your heartstrings and prompt righteous outrage ' TELEGRAPH ------ Tuscany, 1944. A group of Nazi soldiers arrive at the farm of Robert Einstein - Albert's cousin. Over the next few hours four lives will be first terrorised then destroyed. The soldiers vanish. For eighty years this crime has remained unsolved. Now Thomas Harding peels back the layers of history to discover the truth. Who ordered the killings? Who was involved? And, most importantly, why?.