Rosa
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Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third.
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Deze serie volgt de reis van een politie-inspecteur die zich een weg baant door het turbulente landschap van Berlijn begin 20e eeuw. Vanaf 1919 worden lezers ondergedompeld in de politieke intriges en de criminele onderwereld van Duitsland na de oorlog. Het is een aangrijpend verhaal dat thema's als rechtvaardigheid, corruptie en veerkracht te midden van maatschappelijke onrust onderzoekt. Ervaar de sfeer en spanning van een stad in transitie door de ogen van een man die orde zoekt in chaos.
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Shadow and Light
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- 14 uur lezen
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.
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The Second Son
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- 11 uur lezen
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.
