Garden of beasts : a novel of Berlin 1936

ISBN: 9780743222013
ISBN: 0743222016
ISBN: 0743437829 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1416513191 (trade pbk.)
ISBN: 9781416513193 (trade pbk.)
Physical Description: 404 p. ; 25 cm. : ill. print
Publisher: New York : Simon &amp; Schuster, c2004.

Summary: 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 get 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 feverish cat-and-mouse chase, as Paul stalks Ernst through Berlin while a dogged Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for the American. --[Book Jacket].