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EAN-13 | 9780743526647 ![]() |
Product Name | Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936 |
Language | English |
Category | Book / Magazine / Publication |
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SKU | 5498862 |
Price New | 1.94 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Price Used | 1.79 US Dollars (curriencies) |
Width | 1.1 inches (convert) |
Height | 7.1 inches (convert) |
Length | 4.3 inches (convert) |
Author | Jeffery Deaver |
Binding | Audio Cassette |
Published | 07/13/2004 |
Features | Used Book in Good Condition |
Long Description | Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known equally for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets 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 Reinhardt 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 boarding house near the Tiergarten -- the huge park in central Berlin but also, literally, the "Garden of Beasts" -- and begins his hunt. The next forty-eight hours are a 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. Garden of Beasts 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. |
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