MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN -A gripping evocative thriller set in Berlin''s seedy underworld during the roaring Twenties.- -Mail on Sunday Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher. Detective Inspector Gereon Rath is caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, deception and murder as Germany teeters on the edge of Nazism. In 1929, Berlin is the vibrating metropolis of post-war Germany, full of bars, brothels and dissatisfied workers. Arriving in disgrace from Cologne, Gereon Rath is assigned to the Vice Squad.When a body bearing traces of torture turns up in the canal, Rath sees a chance to earn his way back into the homicide division.As he investigates, he discovers a gang of exiled Russians intent on purchasing arms with smuggled gold - but others are trying to get hold of the gold- and the guns.Finding himself up against both paramilitaries and organised criminals
