Berlin 1931: The economic crisis is reaching its peak, the confrontations between the Storm Troopers and the Communists are becoming increasingly violent, while a power struggle has erupted among the crime syndicates. Meanwhile, Gerion Rat has been ordered to become the shadow of American gangster Abraham (Abe) Goldstein. Thus, what started as a service to the U.S. Bureau of Investigations (later FBI) eventually turns into a life-or-death street fight.

Folker Kutscher skillfully portrays characters living in a fragmented city on the eve of the establishment of fascism, characters that strikingly resemble contemporary ones and move the reader. All within a breath-taking plot, where the climaxes succeed one another. Truly captivating!