Garden of Beasts
A Novel of Berlin 1936
New York : Pocket Books, 2022, ©2004.
Format: Book
Edition: Pocket Books paperback edition
Description: 558 pages ; 19 cm
"Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: execution or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhard Ernst—the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If successful, Paul will be pardoned and given the financial means to go legit. Paul travels to Germany, takes a room in a boardinghouse near the Tiergarten—the huge park in central Berlin but also, literally, the "Garden of Beasts"—and begins his hunt. Garden of Beasts, which won the Steel Dagger Award from the Crime writers' Assoiationin the UK, is packed with fascinating period detail and features a cast of perfectly realized locals, Olympic athletes and senior Nazi officials—some real, some fictional. With hairpin plot twists, the reigning "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) plumbs the nerve-jangling paranoia of prewar Berlin and steers the story to a breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending."-- Back cover
Subjects:
Criminals -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Criminals -- Fiction.
Assassins -- Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781982187941
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