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In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times best-selling creator Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman battles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. Paul Schumann, a German American living in NEW YORK in 1936, is a mobster hitman known just as much for his amazing tactics for taking only "righteous" tasks. But Paul gets caught. As well as the arresting official offers him a stark choice: jail or covert administration service. Paul is asked to present as a journalist within the summer Olympics occurring in Berlin. He's to hunt down and wipe out Reinhard Ernst - the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If successful, Paul will be pardoned and given the financial means to go legit; if he refuses the work, his fate will be Sing Sing and the electric seat. Paul vacations to Germany, takes a room in a boardinghouse near to the Tiergarten - the huge area in central Berlin but also, basically, the "Garden of Beasts" - and commences his hunt. In basic Deaver fashion, the next 48 hours are a feverish cat-and-mouse run after as Paul stalks Ernst through Berlin while a dogged Berlin officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for the American. Garden of Beasts is packed with fascinating period aspect and includes a cast of properly realized locals, Olympic sportsmen, and older Nazi officers - some real, some imaginary. With hairpin storyline twists, the reigning "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) plumbs the nerve-jangling paranoia of prewar Berlin and steers the storyline to a breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending.
