Goldstein: A Gereon Rath Mystery

The Basis for the International TV Sensation Babylon BerlinOne of CrimeReads's Favorite Crime Books of the Year (Selected by Paul French) "[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lense of genre fiction."-The New York Times Volker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with Goldstein as a police inspector investigates the crime and corruption of a decadent 1930s Berlin in the shadows of the growing Nazi movement.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.