Café Berlin: A Novel

“A story that combines the picaresque with the spy thriller” (Atlantic), Café Berlin is an incredible novel of decadence and defiance during Nazi Germany’s rise to power.

In the years between Germany’s defeat in World War I and the reign of the Nazis, the underground clubs and cabarets of Berlin pulsed with the frenetic energy of rebellion. Suspended on the precipice of global catastrophe, a young counterculture emerged in the Weimar capital, where—if only for a moment—races and religions ...