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Title: The Last Man in Berlin: A Novel by Gaylord Dold ISBN: 1-4022-0124-9 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Sex. Drugs. Rock 'n Roll. Hitler
Comment: This is a very good mystery-thriller, painted on the canvas of the doomed Berlin, and subsequently, doomed mid-twentieth century Europe. It carries with it some of the sadness of the wonderful Alan Furst novels, true to the time and the despair of the Armageddon our forefathers were powerless or impotent or too ignorant to avoid.
Harry Wulff, the last man standing, is a successful detective wanting only to protect the people, the Berliners, from lawbreakers. Of course behind Wulff are the raging battles of the Nazi Party, the communists, as well as the criminals. This is Berlin in 1931 and 1932. Hitler is not Chancellor yet and the Reichstag has yet to be burned.
His love of his partner Johanna, who won't marry him because she is Jewish, his loyalty to his friend Barlach, and his devotion to his father is touching and grounds him. We are dealing with an honorable man in dishonorable surroundings.
Hot on the trail of a psychopath he seeks the advice of Johanna, much like Spenser seeks the advice of Susan Silvermann. But Spenser survives and Harry is left almost on the brink of madness himself.
There was for me almost too much sex and a great deal of it was lurid and uncomfortable. The pschopath kills tranvestites; there is more than a hint of his incestuous upbringing; the Nazis use prostitutes with special skills.
Yet Dold writes a compelling novel and I will read him again, and probably again. 4 stars. Larry Scantlebury
Rating: 4
Summary: As Hitler rises to power
Comment: An interesting perspective of Berlin in the era as Hitler was about to take power interwoven with a thrilling search for a murderer. Well written and hard to put down.
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Title: The Eye of the Abyss by Marshall Browne ISBN: 0312311567 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva ISBN: 0399151435 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 23 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Novel by James Lee Burke ISBN: 0743245423 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by DAN FESPERMAN ISBN: 037541472X Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Kill Clause : A Novel by Gregg Hurwitz ISBN: 0060530383 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 14 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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