Goldstein, page 50
The red-gold saloon was full to bursting. In here, the mob felt like a bad dream. Only the black eye and slightly dirty suit of the man next to him at the bar reminded him what had happened. The man smiled at his female companion as if all was forgotten. The barman, too, was friendly as ever. Rath ordered his cognac and tried not to think of Charly, concentrating instead on the music and, yes, the new drummer was very good.
He drank hoping, when the time came, to fall pleasantly inebriated into his hotel bed. Meanwhile, the atmosphere in Kakadu was as riotous as ever, and he felt happy to be among these people who just wanted to drink, dance, listen to music and have fun. He wasn’t interested in what was happening outside. Still, Abraham Goldstein was right about one thing: Berlin was a crazy city, and it was getting crazier and crazier.
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1929: There is seething unrest in Berlin. When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning and shady politics.
‘An excellent police procedural that cleverly captures the dark and dangerous period of the Weimer Republic before it slides into the ultimate evil of Nazism.’
Kirkus Reviews
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1930: Silent movie actress Betty Winter is killed on set after a lighting system falls on her. Inspector Gereon Rath suspects sabotage, possibly worse. Meanwhile, the murder of a Nazi named Horst Wessel leads to street riots and Rath’s relationship with Charlotte Ritter is on the rocks. Then another actress is found dead, this time with her vocal cords removed…
‘Conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings.’
The Sunday Times
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