Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international bestselling series from Volker Kutscher. When a body bearing traces of torture turns up in the canal Detective Inspector Gereon Rath is dragged into Weimar Berlin's underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning, and shady politics.
It is 1927 and Gereon Rath experiences a city in a state of ecstasy. Cocaine, illegal night clubs, street riots between the rising Nazis and the communists. The young and ambitious inspector, new in town and ordered to work for the vice squad, meddles with the investigations to a murder - and is not yet aware that he has stirred up a hornet's nest.
