{"product_id":"garden-of-beasts-9781668288245","title":"Garden of Beasts","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668288245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.43d","brand":"Jeffery Deaver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53678419771573,"sku":"9781668288245","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781668288245.jpg?v=1793721653","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/garden-of-beasts-9781668288245","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}