Deaver, Jeffery <br/><br/>
Garden of beasts  : a novel of Berlin 1936 
/ Jeffery Deaver 
 - New York  : Simon & Schuster  , c2004. 
 - 404 p.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "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."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780743222013 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004045206 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminals----Fiction<br/>Assasins----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Berlin (Germany)----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Suspense fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3554.E1755  / G37 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC DEA