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Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936 by Jeffery Deaver (2022, Us-Tall Rack Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPocket Books

ISBN-101982187948

ISBN-139781982187941

eBay Product ID (ePID)17050397790

Product Key Features

Book TitleGarden of Beasts : a Novel of Berlin 1936

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / General, General, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year2022

GenreFiction

AuthorJeffery Deaver

FormatUs-Tall Rack Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length7.5 in

Item Width4.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIn the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. 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 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 boarding house 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 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 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 pre-war Berlin and steers the story to a breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending. The novel won the Steel Dagger award for best espionage thriller of the year from the prestigious Crime Writers' Associate in the United Kingdom.