Jonathan Rabb Boeken

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.

"A moving novel about a Holocaust survivor's unconventional journey back to a new normal in 1940s Savannah, Georgia. In late summer 1947, thirty-one-year-old Yitzhak Goldah, a camp survivor, arrives in Savannah to live with his only remaining relatives. They are Abe and Pearl Jesler, older, childless, and an integral part of the thriving Jewish community that has been in Georgia since the founding of the colony. There, Yitzhak discovers a fractured world, where Reform and Conservative Jews live separate lives--distinctions, to him, that are meaningless given what he has been through. He further complicates things when, much to the Jeslers' dismay, he falls in love with Eva, a young widow within the Reform community. When a woman from Yitzhak's past suddenly appears--one who is even more shattered than he is--Yitzhak must choose between a dark and tortured familiarity and the promise of a bright new life. Set amid the backdrop of America's postwar south, Among the Living grapples with questions of identity and belonging, and steps beyond the Jewish experience as it situates Yitzhak's story during the last gasp of the Jim Crow era. Yitzhak begins to find echoes of his own experience in the lives of the black family who work for the Jeslers--an affinity he does not share with the Jeslers themselves. This realization both surprises and convinces Yitzhak that his choices are not as clear-cut as he might have thought"-- Provided by publisher

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.

Por el autor de "El senor del Caos"Asia Menor, siglo VI. Tras constantes enfrentamientos con la Iglesia cristiana, el maniqueismo, una secta heretica, desaparece de los anales de la historia.Bosnia, 1992. Ian Pearse, un estudiante de teologia norteamericano enviado en una mision de paz a Bosnia, se enfrenta a un grave dilema tras haber mantenido una intensa relacion con una joven croata.Roma, hoy. Un manuscrito codificado llega a manos del padre Pearse, convertido ahora en uninvestigador de la Biblioteca del Vaticano. Lleado por su curiosidad academica, Pearse hace traducir el documento y se encuentra ante unos resultados sorprendentes: el manuscrito contiene una oracion maniquea, Luz perfecta, de la que no se tenia constancia escrita hasta ese momento.Los documentos recien descubiertos desvelan un hecho asombroso: el maniqueismo, durante siglos considerado un movimiento erradicado en los albores del cristianismo, habria perdurado en la sombra con un claro objetivo: eliminar el catolicismo para imponer una nueva fe. Del Vaticano a Grecia y de vuelta a Bosnia, Pearse intentara evitar que la conspiracion logre sus fines.Jonathan Rabb, autor de El senor del caos, demuestra una vez mas su habilidad para crear una novela de intriga a partir de su erudiccion en temas politicos y religiosos."Rabb nos ofrece un fascinante crisol de documentos secretos, misterios de la antiguedad y conspiraciones atemporales."Katherine Neville, autora de El Ocho