![]() The other is finding the "termite" in the department who is leaking police plans to Hitler's brutal SA, the paramilitary Brownshirts. The first is the murder of a transvestite. He introduces detective Inspector Harry Wulff, an honest man from an aristocratic family, who faces two mysteries. In the first book, good people still have the illusion that Hitler can be stopped in the second, all illusions are gone.ĭold begins by telling us that in 1930 the Berlin Metropolitan Police was one of the best police forces in Europe. ![]() Thomas Moran's "Anja the Liar" is a brooding, character-driven study of three of the war's survivors, set against the backdrop of devastated postwar Europe. ![]() ![]() Gaylord Dold's "The Last Man in Berlin" is a fast-paced, suspenseful story set in Berlin in 1930-33, as Hitler is clawing his way to power. These novels, although vastly different, nonetheless offer a stark before-and-after portrait of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. ![]()
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