{"product_id":"babylon-berlin-book-1-of-the-gereon-rath-mystery-series-paperback","title":"Babylon Berlin: Book 1 of the Gereon Rath Mystery Series - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVolker Kutscher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNiall Sellar\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION \u003ci\u003eBABYLON BERLIN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCabaret \u003c\/i\u003eon cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars.--\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBabylon Berlin \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge of Nazism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's 1929 and Berlin is the vibrating metropolis of post-war Germany--full of bars and brothels and dissatisfied workers at the point of revolt. Gereon Rath is new in town and new to the police department. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a dead man without an identity, bearing traces of atrocious torture, is discovered, Rath sees a chance to find his way back into the homicide division. He discovers a connection with a circle of oppositional exiled Russians who try to purchase arms with smuggled gold in order to prepare a coup d'état. But there are other people trying to get hold of the gold and the guns, too. Raths finds himself up against paramilitaries and organized criminals. He falls in love with Charlotte, a typist in the homicide squad, and misuses her insider's knowledge for his personal investigations. And as he gets further entangled with the case, he never imagined becoming a suspect himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVOLKER KUTSCHER was born in 1962. He studied German, philosophy, and history, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. \u003ci\u003eBabylon Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe International\u003c\/i\u003e). He lives in Cologne. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNIALL SELLAR was born in Edinburgh in 1984. He studied German and translation studies in Dublin, Konstanz and Edinburgh, and has worked variously as a translator, teacher, and reader. In addition to translation work, he currently teaches modern foreign languages in Harrow. He lives in London.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 23, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772571943200,"sku":"9781250187048","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0310912fae4fc77e65905f62374adc35.webp?v=1780408718","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/babylon-berlin-book-1-of-the-gereon-rath-mystery-series-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}