A grand epic about the most colorful criminal scene of the post-war era. Inspired by true events, told with a lot of dark humor and yet great empathy: David Schalko has created a spectacular, unique novel with his criminal epic "Heavy Bones" about Austrian post-war society - and a fascinating insight into the inner lives of people whose souls were destroyed by National Socialism. Vienna, March 1938, the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich. On the day when half of Vienna cheers for its new leader at Heldenplatz, a gang of young petty criminals, specializing in "evacuating" apartments, robs a well-known Nazi. For seven years, the petty criminals must then serve as so-called Kapos to ensure the "maintenance of operations" in the concentration camps of Dachau and Mauthausen - and they grow.