By Jeffery Deaver
Within the such a lot creative and provocative mystery but from the acclaimed manhattan instances bestselling writer Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster became govt hitman struggles to discover his ethical compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. Paul Schumann, a German American dwelling in manhattan urban in 1936, is a mobster hitman often called a lot for his impressive strategies as for taking in simple terms "righteous" assignments. yet then Paul will get stuck. And the arresting officer deals him a stark selection: legal or covert govt provider. Paul is requested to pose as a journalist masking the summer time Olympics occurring in Berlin. he is to seek down and kill Reinhard Ernst -- the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If winning, Paul could be pardoned and given the monetary skill to move professional; if he refuses the task, his destiny might be Sing Sing and the electrical chair. Paul travels to Germany, takes a room in a boardinghouse close to the Tiergarten -- the large park in primary Berlin but additionally, actually, the "Garden of Beasts" -- and starts off his hunt. In vintage Deaver model, the subsequent forty-eight hours are a feverish cat-and-mouse chase, as Paul stalks Ernst via Berlin whereas a dogged Berlin police officer and the whole 3rd Reich equipment seek frantically for the yank. backyard of Beasts is filled with attention-grabbing interval aspect and lines a solid of completely learned locals, Olympic athletes and senior Nazi officers -- a few actual, a few fictional. With hairpin plot twists, the reigning "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) plumbs the nerve-jangling paranoia of prewar Berlin and steers the tale to a panoramic and thoroughly unpredictable finishing.
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Just, I’m always surprised people keep up so close with what I do. Just running and jumping. ” “I’ve been around,” Paul said evasively. He wondered if Owens knew something about what’d happened to Heinsler. Had he overheard them? Or seen Paul grab the man on the top deck by the smokestack? But he decided the athlete would’ve been more troubled if that had been the case. It seemed he had something else in mind. Paul nodded toward the deck behind them. “This is the biggest damn gym I’ve ever seen.
They’d brought Paul here directly from Malone’s. It was a private town house on the Upper East Side, though most of the rooms on the ground floor contained desks and telephones and Teletype machines, like in an office. Only in the parlor were there divans and armchairs. On the walls here were pictures of new and old navy ships. A globe sat in the corner. FDR looked down at him from a spot above a marble mantel. The room was wonderfully cold. A private house that had air-conditioning. Imagine. Still handcuffed, Paul had been deposited in a comfortable leather armchair.
Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2004 by Jeffery Deaver All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. SIMON & SCHUSTERand colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ” “[Berlin] was full of whispers. A. barracks…. ” —Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Stories I THE BUTTON MAN MONDAY, 13 JULY,1936 Chapter One As soon as he stepped into the dim apartment he knew he was dead.