His father is a high-ranking police officer. He comes from a solidly middle-class background in the boring suburbs of Mannheim. I was pleased to see that Tobias is not Peter with a German accent. It speaks to a need to classify by function rather than by history that I rather admire.
That’s so different than just calling something “The Folly”. It seemed to me that Ben Aaronovitch succeeded in giving the book a plausible German feel, starting with the wonderful name of the organisation that Tobia works in: “The Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters”. I enjoyed the way in which this book differed from “The Rivers Of London” series while inhabiting the same world. The fungus is strange enough to merit the involvement of the Abteilung KDA in which Tobias is an Investigator and one of only two licensed magical practitioners in Germany. “The October Man” novella breathes new life into the “Rivers Of London” universe by taking us to Trier in Germany where Tobias Winter, broadly the counterpart of Peter Grant is investigating the death of a man whose corpse has been found covered in a strange fungus. A fresh, fun novella that I hope is the start of a new series of German “Rivers” books.
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