"This is a startling novel! Berlin is its setting - Berlin smouldering in the heat of an abnormally hot summer and precarious political situation. The von Muhlers, wealthy industralists and bastions of the West German republic, are receiving a visit from their son Stephen, a naturalized Australian, and his pretty wife, Joy.

"Stephen appears nervous, unhappy, while Joy revels in the unaccustomed luxury. For her Berlin is a place of lakes and parklands, theatres and skyscrapers, fine clothes; the SS, Wehrmacht, Auschwitz, Brown Shirts are names from a forgotten past. But there are sinister ripples under the smooth, monied surface of the von Muhler household which she cannot ignore. Locked doors hide strange relics; outside in Berlin she hears Nazi songs, the clinking of glasses to Fascist toasts; she sees slogans on walls. Gradually the young Australian becomes aware of the realities of neo-Nazism; and, more terrifying, she discovers that the von Muhlers (and perhaps her husband) are deeply involved in these activities.

"Heatwave in Berlin is both an exciting story and a terrifying revelation."