Jonathan Rabb Livres

Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. Being swept up in the case are Hoffner's new lover, an American talent agent for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his two sons: Georg, who has dropped out of school to work at Ufa, and Sascha, his angry, older son, who, unknown to his father, has become fully entrenched in the new German Workers Party as the aide to its Berlin leader, Joseph Goebbels. What a spellbinding novel "Shadow and Light" is, and what a novelist Jonathan Rabb has become! When we last met Hoffner, it was 1919, and he had taken on the disappearance and death of Rosa Luxembourg in "Rosa," a novel the critic John Leonard hailed as "a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and Andre Malraux." "Shadow and Light" is equally brilliant and atmospheric, and even harder to put down or shake off. Like Joseph Kanon or Alan Furst, Rabb magically fuses a smart, energetic narrative with layers of fascinating, vividly documented history. The result is a stunning historical thriller, created by a writer to celebrate--and contend with.

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.

Imagine a document so brilliant, so diabolical, that it could serve as a blueprint for world takeover. Would it be the most thrilling thing you'd ever read or the most terrifying?A blueprint for world domination whose cynicism goes a chilling step beyond Machiavelli, this document--in the wrong hands--could bring about the downfall of the free world.It is in the wrong hands...

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.

Por el autor de "El senor del Caos"Asia Menor, siglo VI. Tras constantes enfrentamientos con la Iglesia cristiana, el maniqueismo, una secta heretica, desaparece de los anales de la historia.Bosnia, 1992. Ian Pearse, un estudiante de teologia norteamericano enviado en una mision de paz a Bosnia, se enfrenta a un grave dilema tras haber mantenido una intensa relacion con una joven croata.Roma, hoy. Un manuscrito codificado llega a manos del padre Pearse, convertido ahora en uninvestigador de la Biblioteca del Vaticano. Lleado por su curiosidad academica, Pearse hace traducir el documento y se encuentra ante unos resultados sorprendentes: el manuscrito contiene una oracion maniquea, Luz perfecta, de la que no se tenia constancia escrita hasta ese momento.Los documentos recien descubiertos desvelan un hecho asombroso: el maniqueismo, durante siglos considerado un movimiento erradicado en los albores del cristianismo, habria perdurado en la sombra con un claro objetivo: eliminar el catolicismo para imponer una nueva fe. Del Vaticano a Grecia y de vuelta a Bosnia, Pearse intentara evitar que la conspiracion logre sus fines.Jonathan Rabb, autor de El senor del caos, demuestra una vez mas su habilidad para crear una novela de intriga a partir de su erudiccion en temas politicos y religiosos."Rabb nos ofrece un fascinante crisol de documentos secretos, misterios de la antiguedad y conspiraciones atemporales."Katherine Neville, autora de El Ocho