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Garden of Beasts : A Novel of Berlin 1936 by Deaver, Jeffery is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin.Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill 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 job, his fate will be Sing Sing and the electric chair. Paul travels to Germany, takes a room in a boardinghouse near the Tiergarten—the huge park in central Berlin but also, literally, the "Garden of Beasts"—and begins his hunt. In classic Deaver fashion, the next forty-eight hours are a feverish cat-and-mouse chase, as Paul stalks Ernst through Berlin while

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Author
Deaver, Jeffery
Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780743258425
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Thriller, Fiction, Mystery
Rating
3.82 / 5 (144 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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