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    Babylon Berlin

    By Volker Kutscher

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    Now a major TV show on Sky Atlantic
    1929: There is seething unrest in Berlin. The Commissioner of Police orders the Vice Squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on demonstrations, and a state of emergency is declared in the Communist strongholds of the city. When a car is hauled out of the Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside Detective Inspector Gereon Rath claims the case. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning, and shady politics.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandstone Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2016
    ISBN9781910124987
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    Babylon Berlin
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    Volker Kutscher

    VOLKER KUTSCHER was born in 1962. He studied German, philosophy, and history, and worked as a newspaper editor prior to writing his first detective novel. Babylon Berlin, the start of an award-winning series of novels to feature Gereon Rath and his exploits in late Weimar Republic Berlin, was an instant hit in Germany. The series was awarded the Berlin Krimi-Fuchs Crime Writers Prize in 2011 and has sold more than one million copies worldwide and was adapted as a 12-part Netflix miniseries by Tom Tykwer (director of Cloud Atlas and The International). He lives in Cologne.

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    • 4/5
      Mystery set in Berlin in the 1920ies about corruption, Russians, Socialists, Monarchists and brown coats. The hero has surprisingly flexible morales or rather, the hero makes mistakes and feels bad about them, even gets shit for committing them and in the end everything isn't happyily ever after, he's still cleaning up the mess he made. It was a good book and probably well researched but it took longer than i thought necessary to set up the story.
    • 3/5
      It was pretty good. I liked the setting in 1929 Berlin and the story was OK. I haven't seen the TV series at all, but learning about that led me to this book. I'm fascinated with pre-WW II Germany and would have liked more descriptive atmosphere than what there was. Still not a bad mystery and a good leading character in Inspector Rath from Cologne. I may read more of these.
    • 3/5
      Ganz neu im Berlin der 30-er Jahre ist der junge Kommissar leider in der falschen Abteilung gelandet: bei der Sitte statt bei der Mordkommission, aber zum Glück bietet ein schwieriger Fall gleich die Möglichkeit, sich einzumischen. Aber letztendlich ist in diesem Krimi der Krimi an sich weder besonders spannend noch besonders logisch. Viel besser ist die Vermittlung der Atmosphäre in Berlin, der Hauptstadt voller Gegensätze, voller Kommunisten und Konservative. Das ganze gesellschaftliche Spektrum passiert Revue. Dabei bleibt zwar der Krimi auf der Strecke, aber das Verständnis vom Berlin jener Zeit wird erheblich größer.