Garden of beasts: a novel of Berlin 1936
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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.
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404 pages ; 25 cm.
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In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the 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: 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 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 prewar Berlin and steers the story to a breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending.
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English
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0743222016 :
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APA Citation (style guide)
Deaver, J. (2004). Garden of beasts: a novel of Berlin 1936. New York, Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Deaver, Jeffery. 2004. Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936. New York, Simon & Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Deaver, Jeffery, Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
MLA Citation (style guide)Deaver, Jeffery. Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
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