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    Goldstein

    By Volker Kutscher

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    Berlin,1931. A power struggle is taking place in Berlin’s underworld. The American gangster Abraham Goldstein is in residence at the Hotel Excelsior. As a favour to the FBI, the police put him under surveillance with Detective Gereon Rath on the job. As Rath grows bored and takes on a private case for his seedy pal Johann Marlow, he soon finds himself in the middle of a Berlin street war.
    Meanwhile Rath’s on-off girlfriend, Charly, lets a young woman she is interrogating escape, and soon her investigations cross Rath’s from the other side. Berlin is a divided city where two worlds are about to collide: the world of the American gangster and the expanding world of Nazism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSandstone Press
    Release dateMay 7, 2018
    ISBN9781912240135
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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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      Goldstein (2010) (G. Rath #3) by Volker Kutscher. I made a mistake with this book. Buying it was not the mistake, nor was reading it. The mistake was I fell for the name of the book. I assumed the Goldstein of the title was the central character of the story. In fact, Abraham Goldstein, the Jewish American mobster/hitman, is a ghost within the works. The year is 1931 and there is growing turmoil within Berlin and Germany as a whole. The Communists are protesting and the young SA, the Nazis, are growing bolder in their attacks on whoever they hate at the moment. Local mobs are vying for stronger positions in the city. And the police are almost universally despised.The German authorities have been notified by the FBI of the mobster arriving in Berlin and the local police put a 24 hour watch on him.Goldstein gives the watchers the slip, is gone in the wind, and there is a hunt for him throughout the rest of the book. But all that is only a distraction to the main story. The core of the tale centers around a homeless girl, Alex, and her attempts to get even with the police. When she and her partner Benny are discovered robbing a department store overnight, she escapes. Benny is murdered in such a fashion that no one suspects it was murder,Inspector Gereon Rath of Homicide is looking into the death of a gangster and a SA man, at separate times and locations. Goldstein’s name gets tossed out at the possible suspect. Rath gets involved in Alex’s story through his love interest, Charlotte Ritter. She is looking for the girl, ultimately trying to help her into a life off the streets. Alex, for her part, doesn’t trust almost anyone and with good reasons.After more than 100 chapters everything ties together. All the puzzles are explained and a sense of right pervades the book. But the book is far more than a crime story. This is a portrait of a city that is about to feel tectonic shifts in politics and money due to further repercussions of the world-wide depression. Add to that a population that is looking for salvation from their troubles and, well, you know what happens.. Volder Kutscher manages to depict this changing world by exposing the lives of several individuals. His writing breathes with the halitosis found behind the curtains of shows like Cabaret and The Damned.I didn’t realize this was the third of five novels and that there is a series ‘Babylon Berlin’ based on the first two novels. So now I look forward to having a bit of reading and watching to do. I anticipate I will enjoy the rest of the canon to the same high degree I did this outing.And you do get to find out just Abe Goldstein was doing in Berlin.