PRIVATE BERLIN
- JAMES PATTERSON & MARK SULLIVAN
"This is a breakneck fast, brutally good page-turner"
- Daily Mail
BURYING THE PAST IS AN UNFORGIVABLE CRIME
A HISTORY LESSON THEY'LL NEVER FORGET ... AND NEITHER WILL YOU.
"Sometimes an
attempt to erase the silhouette of past may furnish the darker graffiti on
the wall of life."
Chris
Schneider, the detective working for Private Berlin (International Detective
Agency Private’s Berlin, Germany Office) goes missing. Katharina Doruk,
managing investigator calls Mathilde “Mattie” Engel the promising detective of
Private, and ex-fiancée of Chris, apprising her that Chris
was on personal leave, and hasn’t checked in when he was supposed to. Mattie
suggests her to try the chip. With the authorization of Jack Morgan who owned
Private, Dr. Ernst Gabriel a polymath and Private’s Forensic Expert activated
the locator chip (embedded under the skin of every detective) of Chris. The chip
led them to a long abandoned building on the eastern outskirts of Berlin.
Counter terrorism expert Tom Burkhart and Mattie goes there, building was a
slaughterhouse back in the communist era, before the wall fell. They find
nothing except the chip wrapped in a livid flesh; and calls the Berlin Kripo
(Crime Investigation Department).
HauptKommisar
Hans Dietrich, an investigator of Berlin Kripo and Private begin the
investigations. They found Chris dead with other corpses, brutally murdered in
the subbasement of slaughterhouse. In a little while the building explodes,
almost killing Mattie and her team. They
went through cases Chris was working on.
Soon
Mattie figured out that masked killer is aiming Chris’s childhood friends and
killing them one by one leaving no traces behind. Death toll keeps rising and
Paranoid mad genius stays far from their sight burying the ‘Past’. As the tale progresses
it uncovers the past of many characters and truth about that slaughterhouse
revealing terror and horrors of East Berlin before the wall fell.
Will
Mattie and her team catch the Sadistic Psychopath Killer breaking his delusion
that he is ‘Invisible Man’? Or will Mattie become his next victim?
Find out,
read the full Book.
Perfect
for the thrilling weekend.
"The death of a sinner always reflects their life. Remember that."
"I learned that survival means acting in the moment with the best information you've got."
"Isn't it interesting how that works, that mere suggestion of threat stirs the darkest regions of the mind."
"The unknown? Human brains can't handle the unknown. Do you know why? Because their imagination always comes up with worse."
"Do the unexpected, my friends. It always pays off."