BABYLON (= chaotic)

BERLIN

C 1920s

Gereon Rath  DCI is relocated to Berlin which is rife with corruption, police and public alike. 

However some city police appear to be striving to achieve some sort of honest policing. 

Berlin, in those post ww1 years was populated by some German/Russians keen on assimilating Germany into socialism.  The usual gangster types dealt drugs and women in the competitive business which no one denied or could do much to quell.  Underground activities quietly bubbled on.  Dead bodies were found, with tortured hands, in cars pulled from the river.  These came to attention of DCI Rath and he pursued those responsible 

Competition for markets, money and even gold seemed to be an open secret. No one would have expected ww2 to be on the horizon.  Detectives did what they could. Women worked as they could. The book is interesting in the usual cops and robbers way.  

 I have been referred to watch the series inspired by this book set in tumultuous times. I think it will be engrossing.

February 2022 READING IN PROGRESS.

Mark Twain. THE GILDED AGE.  C. 1875.  (Yes THAT Mark Twain.)  (Begins with court case oldie worldie language, woman kills man, threads on to US Senators and corruption.  I can see how this would make a satisfying tv series and it is available.)

Isabel Allende. RIPPER.  (I like the idea of young folk having an online group activity called Ripper with the object that they try to solve local murders in L.A.  Of course real coppers are on the chase also.)

RipperGroup. Game master Amanda. Daughter of missing Indiana.  Her international online crime solving friends are Col. Paddington. Ababatha.  Esmeralda. Jezabel.. Sherlock Holmes. Boppo.?

Hugh Breakey  THE BEAUTIFUL FALL.  (A young man loses his memory every 179 days.  He begins a strategy to record the activity of current 179 days.  He will lose his memory again but this gives him a past.  Clever sensitive book.  Dominoes and a romance.) (Finished.) 😏

Volker Kutscher.  BABYLON BERLIN.  Will comment on this book later.  Crime, cops, corruption, Russians, gangsters, drugs and all that. Bit of a thriller set in Berlin c 1920/30.  (Finished.)😎