{"product_id":"goldstein-a-gereon-rath-mystery-9781250206343","title":"Goldstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Basis for the International TV Sensation \u003ci\u003eBabylon Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/i\u003e's Favorite Crime Books of the Year (Selected by Paul French) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eBabylon Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with \u003ci\u003eGoldstein\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eas a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows of the growing Nazi movement.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerlin, 1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin's underworld. The American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he soon finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war. Meanwhile Rath's on-off girlfriend, Charly, lets a young woman she is interrogating escape, and soon her investigations cross Rath's from the other side. Berlin is a divided city where two worlds are about to collide: the world of the American gangster and the expanding world of Nazism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50676128153874,"sku":"9781250206343","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca643e12-dd3c-4b4d-bd4b-bbd2e60dc164.jpg?v=1733876410","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goldstein-a-gereon-rath-mystery-9781250206343","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}