He walked to the front of the class, wisps of hair swirling around his head like tiny ghosts and looked at us with abysmatic blue eyes. I noticed that his hands were shaking.
Author Poe Ballantine discovered the basis for his latest book … right next door when his Nebraska neighbor disappeared and his mutilated body found months later.
The memoir, set in the Zoo Subway Station (Banhhof Zoo), Gropiusstadt housing projects, and neighboring areas in West Berlin was first published in Germany in 1979.