Goldstein (A Gereon Rath Mystery) - Softcover

`Tough, gritty and altogether superb, Goldstein is a worthy addition to the addictive Gereon Rath series.'-William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier;` Horrible history indeed, but this is a fascinating novel.'-Literary Review; `Wonderfully atmospheric...'-The Sunday Times; `Splendid and chilling... This is as good as Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series.'-Crime Time; `Noir of exceptional quality... Truly entertaining and deliciously dark novel. Full marks to Sandstone Press for recognising the quality of the German original and getting the novels translated'-Nudge-Book; `Even better than the first two... a strong storyline, set against an increasing buildup in 1930s Berlin between Nazi and communist factions.'-The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland; `Volker Kutscher's books following Detective Inspector Gereon Rath through Berlin are gripping thrillers set against a wonderfully evoked background of Germany in the dying days of the Weimar Republic.'-The New European

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.