The Divided City, Luke McCallin
The Divided City, Luke McCallin
List: $20.49 | Sale: $14.34
Club: $10.24

The Divided City

Author: Luke McCallin

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 14 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/06/2016


Synopsis

A year after Germany's defeat, Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, but tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence with Berlin's new masters.

When a man is found slain in a broken-down tenement, Reinhardt embarks on a gruesome investigation. It seems that a serial killer is on the loose, and matters only escalate when it's discovered that one of the victims was the brother of a Nazi scientist.

Reinhardt's search for the truth takes him across the divided city and soon embroils him in a plot involving the Western Allies and the Soviets. And as he comes under the scrutiny of a group of Germans who want to continue the war—and faces an unwanted reminder from his own past—Reinhardt realizes that this investigation could cost him everything.

About Luke McCallin

Luke McCallin was born in Oxford, grew up in Africa, went to school around the world, and has worked with the United Nations as a humanitarian relief worker and peacekeeper in the Caucasus, the Sahel, and the Balkans. His experiences have driven his writing, in which he explores what happens to normal people-those stricken by conflict, by disaster-put under abnormal pressures. Luke has a master's degree in political science, speaks French, is learning Spanish, and can just get by in Russian. He lives with his wife and two children in France.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cold War Conversations Podcast on February 07, 2017

A great story for your “Berlin Noir” shelf This is the third Gregor Reinhardt novel by Luke McCallin and is set in 1947 Berlin rather than the wartime former Yugoslavia which provided the back drop for the first two. McCallin re-creates the war weary terrain of Berlin incredibly well. His research is......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on July 21, 2021

Having enjoyed both The Man from Berlin (2013) (Gregor Reinhardt #1) and The Pale House (2014) (Gregor Reinhardt #2) I was keen to press on with The Ashes of Berlin (2016) (Gregor Reinhardt #3). The Ashes of Berlin is unquestionably the best one so far. It all really comes together as Gregor Reinhard......more

Goodreads review by Keith on December 02, 2016

The darker the night… I worried about this one. A considerable part of the attraction of the first two Gregor Reinhart novels was the setting, German occupied Bosnia in the 1940s and especially the focus on Sarajevo with all its evocative aspects. Of course Reinhart is a fascinating creation himself......more