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03251aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 88085604B32C11E8822A2F5697128E48 003 SILO 005 20180908010019 008 170814r20182016nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781250187048 020 $a 1250187044 035 $a (OCoLC)1000355562 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d AZT $d FBP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d B@L $d UAP $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ger 043 $a e-gx--- 050 14 $a PT2711.U85 $b N3713 2018 082 04 $a 833/.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Kutscher, Volker, $d 1962- $e author. 240 10 $a Nasse Fisch. $l English 245 10 $a Babylon Berlin / $c Volker Kutscher ; translated from the German by Niall Sellar. 250 $a First Picador paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2018. 300 $a 423 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Book 1 of the Gereon Rath mystery series 520 $a "James Ellroy fans will welcome Kutscher's first novel and series launch, a fast-paced blend of murder and corruption sent in 1929 Berlin."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) The first book in the international-bestselling series that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge of Nazism. It's 1929 and Berlin is the vibrating metropolis of post-war Germany-full of bars and brothels and dissatisfied workers at the point of revolt. Gereon Rath is new in town and new to the police department. When a dead man without an identity, bearing traces of atrocious torture, is discovered, Rath sees a chance to find his way back into the homicide division. He discovers a connection with a circle of oppositional exiled Russians who try to purchase arms with smuggled gold in order to prepare a coup d'Etat. But there are other people trying to get hold of the gold and the guns, too. Raths finds himself up against paramilitaries and organized criminals. He falls in love with Charlotte, a typist in the homicide squad, and misuses her insider's knowledge for his personal investigations. And as he gets further entangled with the case, he never imagined becoming a suspect himself. "The first in a series that's been wildly popular in Germany is an excellent police procedural that cleverly captures the dark and dangerous period of the Weimer Republic before it slides into the ultimate evil of Nazism."-Kirkus Reviews "Conjures up the dangerous decadence of the Weimar years, with blood on the Berlin streets and the Nazis lurking menacingly in the wings."-The Sunday Times (London). 650 0 $a Rath, Gereon (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Berlin (Germany) $x History $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Police $z Germany $x History $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories. 700 1 $a Sellar, Niall, $d 1984- $e translator. 800 1 $a Kutscher, Volker, $d 1962- $t Gereon Raths erster fall. $l English. 941 $a 4 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20220113011803.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204092019.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190215010319.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121718.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=88085604B32C11E8822A2F5697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search