朗读 mp3 下载地址: ed2k://|file| |379634132|2ed3355f1353c0ab554805b492a5b9cd|h= 5rdlufsnn4hirktgec2cu3hqvxpq4wt5|/ 文本下载地址: ed2k://|file| |1064494|7c1a0543a0294a51ac769abcb0fd88e9|h=e 4faonkrgpuc7mcxulpgdb5evy4vzf25|/ Synopsis: In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his pass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin. Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, isa 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 asa 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 essful, 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. Paul travels to Germany, takes a room ina 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. Garden of Beasts 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 ”( People ) plumbs the nerve-jangling paranoia of prewar Berlin and steers the story toa breathtaking and wholly unpredictable ending. Garden Of
