Goldstein
"Abraham Goldstein, a professional hit man, arrives in Berlin from New York. The FBI has sent a warning and Gereon Rath is assigned to keep him out of action--a mind-numbingly boring job when the city's department stores are being robbed one by one, an underworld power struggle is playing out, and N...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English German |
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New York :
Picador,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Picador paperback edition. |
| Series: | Gereon Rath mystery ;
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| Summary: | "Abraham Goldstein, a professional hit man, arrives in Berlin from New York. The FBI has sent a warning and Gereon Rath is assigned to keep him out of action--a mind-numbingly boring job when the city's department stores are being robbed one by one, an underworld power struggle is playing out, and Nazi brownshirts are patrolling the streets. In Weimar Berlin nothing is predictable, but Goldstein will surprise them all"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Germany by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH & Co. First English translation published in Great Britain by Sandstone Press Ltd." |
| Physical Description: | 487 pages ; cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781250206343 |
| Author Notes: | VOLKER KUTSCHER was born in 1962. He studied German, philosophy, and history, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin , the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011 and has sold more than one million copies worldwide and was adapted as a 12-part Netflix miniseries by Tom Tykwer (director of Cloud Atlas and The International ). He lives in Cologne. |
