Babylon Berlin - Volker Kutscher

Category: Crime, Historical Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: 1930s Gemany Gereon Rath Police Procedural TV Tie-In

Written by Volker Kutscher
Read by Mark Meadows
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Babylon Berlin
Gereon Rath, Book 1
By: Volker Kutscher
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
Series: Gereon Rath, Book 1
Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-10-2016
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios

Berlin, 1929. Detective Inspector Rath was a successful career officer in the Cologne Homicide Division before a shooting incident in which he inadvertently killed a man. He has been transferred to the vice squad in Berlin, a job he detests even though he finds a new friend in his boss, Chief Inspector Wolter.

There is seething unrest in the city, and the Commissioner of Police has ordered the vice squad to ruthlessly enforce the ban on May Day demonstrations. The result is catastrophic, with many dead and injured, and a state of emergency is declared in the Communist strongholds of the city.

When a car is hauled out of Berlin’s Landwehr Canal with a mutilated corpse inside, the Commissioner decides to use this mystery to divert the attention of press and public from the casualties of the demonstrations. The biggest problem is that the corpse cannot be identified.

Volker Kutscher was born in 1962 in Lindlar, West Germany. He is the author of the enormously successful Gereon Rath crime series which, in addition to compelling narrative, is notable for its scrupulous accuracy about Germany in the years between its beginning in 1927 and the approach to the Second World War.

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