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See more books from this AuthorThen Hoffner learns his son is a secret agent for the Brits, sent to Spain to expose the Nazis’ supply routes (they’re smuggling guns for Franco).
Feb 22 2011 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelBut the policeman turns out to be an uncommonly good detective, since, as Greene argued, “you cannot love without intuition.” In “The Second Son,” Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner is also skilled at reading people (he recognizes a British spy in minutes), and he too has a great capacity for love.
Feb 11 2011 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelMeanwhile, Hoffner's filmmaker second son, Georg, has left his wife and son in Berlin to travel to Barcelona, where the People's Olympics, games intended to protest the spectacle of Hitler's Olympics, are scheduled to take place.
Dec 20 2010 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelIn Jonathan Rabb's "The Second Son," a Berlin police detective, Nikolai Hoffner, is cashiered from his post — circa 1936 — by the Nazis because he is half-Jewish.
Mar 21 2011 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelThus begins the climactic section of Jonathan Rabb’s The Second Son, as Kriminal-Oberkommisar Nicolai Hoffner completes his odyssey through a Spain torn by civil war and learns the fate of both his sons.
| Read Full Review of The Second Son: A Novel… Driving through the heat, Hoffner gazed into the bleached red of the sky, the color of blood mixed with water, although here it was clouds sifting through a dying sun …” I don’t want to give away the news about the success or failure of Hoffner’s search for his younger son, but in the end, Insp...
Feb 18 2011 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelIn Harper’s Magazine, John Leonard called the first, Rosa, “a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and André Malraux.” The second, Shadow and Light (2009), garnered rave reviews—in The Washington Post, Wendy Smith praised its “atmosphere” ...
Feb 14 2011 | Read Full Review of The Second Son: A NovelMisterioso is the first novel in Arne Dahl’s Swedish Intercrime series, which follows an elite task force set up by the National Criminal Police.
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