01869cam a2200277 4500 94732988 TxAuBib 20120126120000.0 040212s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004045206 9780743222013 0743222016 (OCoLC)54462051 TxAuBib Deaver, Jeffery. Garden of beasts : a novel of Berlin 1936 / Jeffery Deaver. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004. 404 p. ; 25 cm. 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 gets 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 a 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. 20120126. Criminals Fiction. Assassins Fiction. Berlin (Germany) History 1918-1945 Fiction. Germany History 1933-1945 Fiction. TXMOO