Garden of beasts : a novel of Berlin 1936 / Jeffery Deaver.
Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul get caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison 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; if he refuses the job, his fate will be Sing Sing and the electric chair. 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. In classic Deaver fashion, the next forty-eight hours are feverish cat-and-mouse chase, as Paul stalks Ernst through Berlin while a dogged Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for the American. --[Book Jacket].
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416513193 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1416513191 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0743437829 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0743222016
- ISBN: 9780743222013
- Physical Description: 404 p. ; 25 cm. : ill.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
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Subject: | Criminals > Fiction. Assassins > Fiction. Police > Fiction Assassination > Fiction Reinhard Ernst > Fiction Nazi Germany > Fiction Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945 > Fiction. Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Crime thrillers. Psychological thrillers. Suspense fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. |
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