Garden of beasts

a novel

by Jeffery Deaver

• 186 Want to read
• 18 Currently reading

Published 2005 by Pocket Books in New York .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Criminals -- Fiction.,
• Assassins -- Fiction.,
• Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction.,
• Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.

---

About the Edition

German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler"s clandestine rearmament or face the electric chair. From a boarding house near the Tiergarten, a huge park in central Berlin also known as the Garden of Beasts, Schumann stalks Ernst while a Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for him.

Edition Notes

Statement	Jeffery Deaver.
Genre	Fiction.
Classifications
LC Classifications	PS3554.E1755 G37 2005
The Physical Object
Pagination	542 p. ;
Number of Pages	542
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL22697113M
ISBN 10	1416513191, 0743222016
ISBN 10	9781416513193, 9780743222013
LC Control Number	2008297649

---

Directed by Joe Wright. With Tom Hanks. A mild-mannered Chicago professor becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany just before the Nazis began to assert an iron grip across : Tom Hanks.   Buy a cheap copy of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, book by Erik Larson. Amazon Best Books of the Month, May In the Garden of Beasts is a vivid portrait of Berlin during the first years of Hitler’s reign, brought to life through Free shipping over $Cited by:

In the Garden of Beasts (Paperback) Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin. By Erik Larson. Broadway Books, , pp. Publication Date: May . In the Garden of Beasts at times seems derivative of a memoir, Through Embassy Eyes, by Martha Dodd, one of the main characters of his of the material is the same, but we can forgive that because Larson fills in everything that Dodd herself felt obliged to leave out: It’s not every U.S. ambassador’s daughter who becomes a spy for the Soviet Union.   In the Garden of Beasts has the clarity of purpose to see the Germany of through the eyes of this uniquely well-positioned American family There has been nothing quite like Mr. Larson’s story of the four Dodds, characters straight out of a s family drama, transporting their shortcomings to a new world full of nasty surprises Mr.4/4(13).

  In Garden of Beasts, Deaver takes us back to and I mean he takes us back. Edward R. Murrow used to have a television show, as I recall, entitled "You are There." in which the viewer was taken back to an historic event. Well, after reading this book, you will have a pretty clear picture of Germany in the days of the Hitler ascendancy.5/5(5). Free download or read online In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitlers Berlin pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in May 10th , and was written by Erik Larson. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format/5. In the Garden of Beasts | Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to Brand: Broadway Books.