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Garden of Beasts

A Novel of Berlin 1936

By Jeffery Deaver

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| Paperback | 9780743437820

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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 Continue

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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  • Garden of Beasts By Jeffery Deaver

    Jeffery Deaver plants his latest thriller in pre-World War II BerlinOne month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks reduced the World Trade Center to rubble, Jeffery Deaver was having lunch at Windows on the World, catching up on Big Apple gossip with th ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936

    Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936 Jeffery Deaver Pocket Star Paperback 576 pages January 2005 Despite the fact that I don't really care for contemporary spy novels, World War II thrillers are my favorite brand of fiction after fantasy/SF. They ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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