Shadow and Light A Novel
Shadow and Light A Novel by Jonathan Rabb is a historical fiction set in Berlin between the two world wars, published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on March 30, 2010. This first edition spans 400 pages and presents a gripping narrative centered around the investigation of a murder at the Ufa film studios. Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the death of an executive found in a bathtub, leading him into a complex web of crime, politics, and the burgeoning film industry.
Readers will find that the story intricately weaves together elements of mystery and detective work, as Hoffner collaborates with notable figures like director Fritz Lang and crime syndicate leader Alby Pimm. The investigation reveals a darker side of Berlin, exploring themes related to the sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler’s Brownshirts, and the political tensions of a post-Versailles Germany. As Hoffner navigates this treacherous landscape, his personal life becomes intertwined with the case, involving his American lover and his sons, who are drawn into the shifting political climate.
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Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlin?s sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitler?s Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. Being swept up in the case are Hoffner?s new lover, an American talent agent for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his two sons: Georg, who has dropped out of school to work at Ufa, and Sascha, his angry, older son, who, unknown to his father, has become fully entrenched in the new German Workers Party as the aide to its Berlin leader, Joseph Goebbels.
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