Set in the long, hot Hungarian summer of 2015--and revealing the hidden, criminal world beneath Budapest's glittering facade--District VIII is the first novel in the new Detective Balthazar Kovacs mystery series. Life's tough for a Gypsy detective in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you're a cop. The dead, however, don't care. So when Balthazar...