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Book Review of Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936

Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936
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Berlin, 1936: German-American hitman Paul Schumann is on a government assignment that, if sucessful, will spare him from the electric chaor and could avert a war in Europe. Posing as journelist covering the Olympics, Paul must find and kill Reinhard Ernst, the genious behind Hitler's rearmament scheme. With te hellish claws of the Third Reich searching incessantly for him, Paul pursues his target from the hails of Hitler's government to the Olympic stadium, to the heart of Nazi Berlin-the Tiergarten, the "Garden of Beasts" -- ina nerve-jangling thrill ride filled with all the stunning twists and surprises that are the hallmark of amerrica's "master of ticking-bomb suspense"
My first read of Jeffery Deaver. It wasn't easy to turn my light off and go to sleep. Remarkably entertaining as well as historically enlightening.