{"product_id":"9780743258425","title":"Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGarden of Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is packed with fascinating period detail and features a cast of perfectly realized locals, Olympic athletes and senior Nazi officials -- some real, some fictional. With hairpin plot twists, the reigning \"master of ticking-bomb suspense\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e) plumbs the nerve-jangling paranoia of prewar Berlin and steers the story to a breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47107531440368,"sku":"9780743258425","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743258425_p0.jpg?v=1763793818","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743258425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}