MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN.

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THE WOMAN HE LOVES IS THE WOMAN WHO MAY DESTROY HIM.

Berlin, 1929.

A car crashes through fencing and plunges into the dirty brown depths of the Landwehr Canal. When the driver’s body is fished out of the water, he’s found to be wearing an expensive dinner jacket — and the mutilations to his hands show that he was incapable of driving. It’s clear he was dead before he plunged into the water, and that he had been subjected to excruciating torture.

This was no accidental death.

Detective Inspector Gereon Rath recognizes the dead man. He’d drunkenly hammered on Gereon’s door late one night the week before.

Gereon was forced to leave Cologne’s homicide division under a cloud of scandal. He sees this case and his new job in Berlin as a way to restore his reputation.

But Gereon must venture into the decadent night life of Berlin’s dangerous underworld in search of the truth. He comes to realize this case is deeper and darker than he could ever have imagined.

He also finds himself falling in love with Charlotte, a typist in the homicide squad. But his new relationship is thrown into jeopardy when Gereon uses Charlotte’s insider knowledge for his own ends.

And then Gereon himself becomes the prime suspect . . .

DISCOVER A BREATHTAKING SERIES OF CRIME MYSTERIES FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS WITH THE INTOXICATING ATMOSPHERE OF BERLIN BETWEEN THE WARS.

Perfect for fans of Robert Harris, Philip Kerr, Martin Cruz Smith, Alan Furst, Tom Rob Smith, Joseph Kanon, David Downing.