Jonathan Rabb schafft fesselnde historische Thriller, die meisterhaft Spannung mit tiefem Engagement für Philosophie und Geschichte verbinden. Seine Erzählungen tauchen häufig in turbulente vergangene Epochen ein und untersuchen vielschichtige Themen wie Verschwörung, Geheimnisse und die menschliche Verfassung. Rabb's unverwechselbarer Stil liegt in seiner Fähigkeit, historische Perioden und Charaktere lebendig werden zu lassen, was den Lesern ein fesselndes und intellektuell anregendes Erlebnis bietet. Sein Werk zeugt von seiner Leidenschaft, verborgene Narrative in der Geschichte aufzudecken und sie in packende Geschichten zu verwandeln.
Das gefährlichste Buch, das je geschrieben wurde, muss gefunden werden. Doch die Zeit wird knapp. Denn der brisante Plan des machtbesessenen Mönchs Eisenreich aus dem 16. Jahrhundert ist in die Hände einer Verschwörergruppe gelangt die Welt steht am Rande des Abgrunds. Die amerikanische Regierung setzt die erfahrene Agentin Sarah Trent und den jungen Wissenschaftler Alexander Jaspers auf die Spur der Verschwörer. Eine atemlose Verfolgungsjagd quer durch Italien, Deutschland, England und die USA beginnt …
In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his young assistant, Hans Fichte, the revolution is a mere inconvenience. Four women from the slums of Berlin have turned up dead, all with identical markings etched into their backs, and Hoffner and Fichte have spent the better part of six weeks trying to crack the bizarre case.>P?Things take a troubling turn when the political police begin to show an interest in Hoffner's investigation. Hoffner has no idea why the Polpo would want to get their hands dirty with a serial murderer, until he is shown the lifeless body of Rosa Luxemburg, the same eerie markings on her back. Rumors abound that Rosa, one of the leaders of the suppressed socialist uprising, was assassinated by an angry mob, but the pattern carved into her back tells a different story.
Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The
Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and
Light was the second and The Second Son the third.
An Intriguing Historical Thriller Set in the Barcelona of the Spanish Civil War On the eve of Hitler’s Olympics, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner, a half Jew, has been forced out of the Kriminalpolizei. Luckily, Hoffner’s focus is elsewhere. His son Georg is missing in Spain, swept up in the sudden outbreak of the civil war. He has already lost Sascha, his elder son, who is fully entrenched in the Nazi regime. But Georg is not what he appears to be, and when Hoffner discovers this, he is determined to save the one son he can. The Second Son is the eagerly awaited final installment in Jonathan Rabb’s Berlin trilogy, set between the two world wars. In Harper’s Magazine, John Leonard called the first, Rosa, “a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and André Malraux.” The second, Shadow and Light (2009), garnered rave reviews—in The Washington Post, Wendy Smith praised its “atmosphere” and “brilliantly plotted narrative.” Now, nearly ten years after the events of Shadow and Light, Hoffner finds himself tossed into the chaos that is Spain— where he quickly meets anarchists, Soviet and British secret agents, and a female doctor called Mila Pera—as he follows a trail of clues left by Georg. In the spirit of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst—whose Foreign Correspondent also took place in the mountains of Spain—Rabb delivers another atmospheric work, rich with his storytelling talent and historical expertise.
Set in Berlin during 1927, the story follows Kriminal-Oberkommissar Nikolai Hoffner as he investigates the suspicious death of a Ufa studio executive. Teaming up with filmmaker Fritz Lang and crime boss Alby Pimm, Hoffner delves into a dangerous underworld rife with sex, drugs, and political turmoil. The narrative explores the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts and the efforts of former monarchists to rearm Germany, creating a gripping backdrop for this electrifying thriller that captures a city on the brink of chaos.
Por el autor de "El senor del Caos"Asia Menor, siglo VI. Tras constantes enfrentamientos con la Iglesia cristiana, el maniqueismo, una secta heretica, desaparece de los anales de la historia.Bosnia, 1992. Ian Pearse, un estudiante de teologia norteamericano enviado en una mision de paz a Bosnia, se enfrenta a un grave dilema tras haber mantenido una intensa relacion con una joven croata.Roma, hoy. Un manuscrito codificado llega a manos del padre Pearse, convertido ahora en uninvestigador de la Biblioteca del Vaticano. Lleado por su curiosidad academica, Pearse hace traducir el documento y se encuentra ante unos resultados sorprendentes: el manuscrito contiene una oracion maniquea, Luz perfecta, de la que no se tenia constancia escrita hasta ese momento.Los documentos recien descubiertos desvelan un hecho asombroso: el maniqueismo, durante siglos considerado un movimiento erradicado en los albores del cristianismo, habria perdurado en la sombra con un claro objetivo: eliminar el catolicismo para imponer una nueva fe. Del Vaticano a Grecia y de vuelta a Bosnia, Pearse intentara evitar que la conspiracion logre sus fines.Jonathan Rabb, autor de El senor del caos, demuestra una vez mas su habilidad para crear una novela de intriga a partir de su erudiccion en temas politicos y religiosos."Rabb nos ofrece un fascinante crisol de documentos secretos, misterios de la antiguedad y conspiraciones atemporales."Katherine Neville, autora de El Ocho
