Helpful Score: 1
Another reviewer used the term "disturbingly convincing" and I would agree. This is a grim novel with its tale of Berliners in the pre and post-war era. It is for readers with strong stomachs, but then that was life in this era. Quite a good read. Right up there with Philip Kerr, and Alan Furst, though the author is of the WWII generation. One wonders what stories are his own memories in this novel.
Well, since it keeps doing flashbacks (as various people are murdered), the characters of the main story weren't developed enough, so I lost interest in the detective part of it (also, they were tight-lipped teutonic types, not very fleshed out).
