Shadow and light
By: by Jonathan Rabb.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9780374261948
Subjects: Police -- Germany -- Berlin -- Fiction; Motion picture producers and directors -- Crimes against -- Fiction; Motion picture industry -- Germany -- Fiction; Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin's sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany.