Jutta Carroll and her lover Lukas Grimm are found shot to death in their home. Was it a murder suicide? Was it the work of their political enemies, or possibly someone close to them? The Martyrs, The Lovers explores the forces and motivations that drive political passion and activism, and the counterforces--both external and psychological--that constantly threaten progress, all wrapped in the mystery of their death. The novel is loosely based on the life and death in 1992 of the German Green Party founder and activist Petra Kelly and her partner Gerd Bastien. The challenges to environment, peace, justice, and feminism that informed their lives and death challenge us more than ever today. Exquisitely written, in thoughtful and poetic language, The Martyrs, The Lovers is a book whose characters and contemplations will stay with you long after you have finished reading. "Read this book! and be seduced by Catherine Gammon's stunning and complex political mystery of a martyr bearing witness in a dangerous world. Against a backdrop of America's and Germany's brutal histories, her lyrical yet frightening then haunted and intimate language crawls into the psyche of her characters. Gammon is an author whose books you can trust to shock and seduce. Brava for a new book?for our times." --Margo Berdeshevsky, author of It Is Still Beautiful to Hear the Heart Beat, Beautiful Soon Enough, and Kneel Said the Night