Rosa
- 405pages
- 15 heures de lecture
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.
Trilogie berlinoise Séries
Cette série retrace le parcours d'un inspecteur de police naviguant dans le paysage tumultueux de Berlin au début du 20e siècle. À partir de 1919, les lecteurs sont plongés dans les intrigues politiques et la pègre de l'Allemagne d'après-guerre. C'est un récit captivant explorant les thèmes de la justice, de la corruption et de la résilience au milieu des bouleversements sociaux. Découvrez l'atmosphère et le suspense d'une ville en transition à travers les yeux d'un homme en quête d'ordre dans le chaos.
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L'homme intérieur
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Berlin, between the two world wars, is the backdrop for a gripping investigation when an executive at Ufa film studios is discovered dead in his office bathtub. Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is tasked with uncovering the truth, aided by renowned director Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, leader of Berlin's most powerful crime syndicate. Hoffner's inquiry leads him into the perilous realms of the city's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts, and the clandestine efforts by former monarchists to rearm post-Versailles Germany. Complicating matters are Hoffner's new lover, an American talent agent for MGM, and his two sons: Georg, who has left school to work at Ufa, and Sascha, his resentful older son, who secretly supports the German Workers Party under Joseph Goebbels. This spellbinding narrative showcases Jonathan Rabb's talent, following Hoffner's previous case involving Rosa Luxembourg in 1919. "Shadow and Light" is a brilliant and atmospheric novel, weaving a smart, energetic storyline with rich historical detail. The result is a captivating historical thriller that both celebrates and challenges its era, reminiscent of the works of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst.
The Second Son
- 294pages
- 11 heures de lecture
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.