The Silent Death - Couverture souple

Kutscher, Volker

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 125018701X ISBN 13 : 9781250187017

Editeur : Picador, 2018

Synopsis

THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN

"[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."--The New York Times

Volker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with The Silent Death as a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows of the growing Nazi movement.

March 1930: The film business is in a process of change. Talking films are taking over the silver screen and many a producer, cinema owner, and silent movie star is falling by the wayside.

Celebrated actress Betty Winter is hit by a spotlight while filming a talkie. At first it looks like an accident, but Superintendent Gereon Rath finds clues that point to murder. While his colleagues suspect the absconded lighting technician, Rath's investigations take him in a completely different direction, and he is soon left on his own.

Steering clear of his superior who wants him off the case, Rath's life gets more complicated when his father asks him to help Cologne mayor Konrad Adenauer with a case of blackmail, and ex-girlfriend Charly tries to renew their relationship--all while tensions between Nazis and Communists escalate to violence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

VOLKER KUTSCHER was born in 1962. He studied German, philosophy, and history, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011 and has sold more than one million copies worldwide and was adapted as a 12-part Netflix miniseries by Tom Tykwer (director of Cloud Atlas and The International). He lives in Cologne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 125018701X
• ISBN 13: 9781250187017
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 446
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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