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In 1919 in Berlijn krijgt een inspecteur van de Kriminal Polizei te maken met een seriemoordenaar; een van zijn slachtoffers is de Russisch-Pools-joodse communistisch activiste Rosa Luxemburg.

Imagine a document so brilliant, so diabolical, that it could serve as a blueprint for world takeover. Would it be the most thrilling thing you'd ever read or the most terrifying?A blueprint for world domination whose cynicism goes a chilling step beyond Machiavelli, this document--in the wrong hands--could bring about the downfall of the free world.It is in the wrong hands...

An Intriguing Historical Thriller Set in the Barcelona of the Spanish Civil War On the eve of Hitler’s Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner, a half Jew, has been forced out of the Kriminalpolizei. Luckily, Hoffner’s focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, who is fully entrenched in the Nazi regime. But Georg is not what he appears to be, and when Hoffner discovers this, he is determined to save the one son he can. The Second Son is the eagerly awaited final installment in Jonathan Rabb’s Berlin trilogy, set between the two world wars. In Harper’s Magazine, John Leonard called the first, Rosa, “a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and André Malraux.” The second, Shadow and Light (2009), garnered rave reviews—in The Washington Post, Wendy Smith praised its “atmosphere” and “brilliantly plotted narrative.” Now, nearly ten years after the events of Shadow and Light, Hoffner finds himself tossed into the chaos that is Spain— where he quickly meets anarchists, Soviet and British secret agents, and a female doctor called Mila Pera—as he follows a trail of clues left by Georg. In the spirit of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst—whose Foreign Correspondent also took place in the mountains of Spain—Rabb delivers another atmospheric work, rich with his storytelling talent and historical expertise.

Set in Berlin during 1927, the story follows Kriminal-Oberkommissar Nikolai Hoffner as he investigates the suspicious death of a Ufa studio executive. Teaming up with filmmaker Fritz Lang and crime boss Alby Pimm, Hoffner delves into a dangerous underworld rife with sex, drugs, and political turmoil. The narrative explores the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts and the efforts of former monarchists to rearm Germany, creating a gripping backdrop for this electrifying thriller that captures a city on the brink of chaos.

Asia Menor, siglo VI: el maniqueísmo, una secta herética, desaparece tras enfrentamientos con la Iglesia cristiana. En Bosnia, 1992, Ian Pearse, un estudiante de teología estadounidense en una misión de paz, enfrenta un dilema tras una intensa relación con una joven croata. En Roma, en la actualidad, un manuscrito codificado llega a Pearse, ahora investigador en la Biblioteca del Vaticano. Su curiosidad lo lleva a traducir el documento, revelando una oración maniquea, "Luz perfecta", hasta ahora desconocida. Los nuevos hallazgos sugieren que el maniqueísmo, considerado erradicado, ha persistido en secreto con el objetivo de eliminar el catolicismo e imponer una nueva fe. Desde el Vaticano hasta Grecia y de regreso a Bosnia, Pearse se embarca en una misión para frustrar esta conspiración. Jonathan Rabb, autor de "El señor del caos", demuestra su habilidad para tejer una intriga compleja, combinando su erudición en temas políticos y religiosos. "Rabb nos ofrece un fascinante crisol de documentos secretos, misterios de la antigüedad y conspiraciones atemporales", destaca Katherine Neville, autora de "El Ocho".