Books by Jonathan Rabb and Complete Book Reviews

Recycling many of the story elements from his 1998 debut thriller, The Overseer, Rabb composes another engrossing if long-winded tale of a master plan for world domination based on the frantic search for an ancient religious scroll. The search is...
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Jonathan Rabb, Author . Crown $24.95 (405p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4921-9
Based on the obscure four-month-long disappearance of the corpse of Rosa Luxemburg, the "Devil Jewess" Socialist Democrat revolutionary, after her summary execution on January 15, 1919, this brooding, studiously researched fiction noir from...
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Jonathan Rabb, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-26194-8
Set in 1927 Germany, Rabb’s superb sequel to Rosa correlates the advent of talking movies with the rise of Nazism. When Kriminal-Oberkommisar Nikolai Hoffner investigates the apparent suicide of an Ufa film studio executive, the trail leads...
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Jonathan Rabb, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-609-60253-9
A U.S. agent and a Columbia University professor race to find a 16th-century manuscript in this intriguing debut thriller. Rabb imagines a Swiss monk called Eisenreich, a contemporary of Machiavelli's, who wrote a long-suppressed book called On...
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Jonathan Rabb, FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-29913-2
Set in 1936, Rabb's gripping conclusion to his Berlin noir trilogy featuring Chief Insp. Nikolai Hoffner (after Rosa and Shadow and Light) finds the 62-year-old Hoffner forced into retirement because the Nazis have discovered that his late mother...
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Jonathan Rabb. Other Press, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59051-803-8
Rabb (The Berlin Trilogy) delves into the struggle to rebuild a life after unfathomable loss in this moving post-war novel. Yitzhak Goldah arrives in Savannah, Georgia, in 1947, two years after being freed from the Nazi camps where he lost his...
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