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E
RIK LARSON
is the author of
The Devil in the White City
,
Thunderstruck
,
Isaac’s Storm
, and other works of nonfiction. He has written for a variety of national magazines and is a former staff writer for the
Wall Street Journal
and
Time
. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three daughters, and an old British sports car named Mrs. Peel.

Table of Contents

Map

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Title Page

Excerpt from The Devil in the White City

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Das Vorspiel

The Man Behind the Curtain

Part I: Into the Wood

Chapter 1: Means of Escape
Chapter 2: That Vacancy in Berlin
Chapter 3: The Choice
Chapter 4: Dread
Chapter 5: First Night

Part II: House Hunting in the Third Reich

Chapter 6: Seduction
Chapter 7: Hidden Conflict
Chapter 8: Meeting Putzi
Chapter 9: Death Is Death
Chapter 10: Tiergartenstrasse 27a

Part III: Lucifer in the Garden

Chapter 11: Strange Beings
Chapter 12: Brutus
Chapter 13: My Dark Secret
Chapter 14: The Death of Boris
Chapter 15: The “Jewish Problem”
Chapter 16: A Secret Request
Chapter 17: Lucifer’s Run
Chapter 18: Warning from a Friend
Chapter 19: Matchmaker

Part IV: How the Skeleton Aches

Chapter 20: The Führer’s Kiss
Chapter 21: The Trouble with George
Chapter 22: The Witness Wore Jackboots
Chapter 23: Boris Dies Again
Chapter 24: Getting Out the Vote
Chapter 25: The Secret Boris
Chapter 26: The Little Press Ball
Chapter 27: O Tannenbaum

Part V: Disquiet

Chapter 28: January 1934
Chapter 29: Sniping
Chapter 30: Premonition
Chapter 31: Night Terrors
Chapter 32: Storm Warning
Chapter 33: “Memorandum of a Conversation with Hitler”
Chapter 34: Diels, Afraid
Chapter 35: Confronting the Club
Chapter 36: Saving Diels
Chapter 37: Watchers
Chapter 38: Humbugged

Part VI: Berlin at Dusk

Chapter 39: Dangerous Dining
Chapter 40: A Writer’s Retreat
Chapter 41: Trouble at the Neighbor’s
Chapter 42: Hermann’s Toys
Chapter 43: A Pygmy Speaks
Chapter 44: The Message in the Bathroom
Chapter 45: Mrs. Cerruti’s Distress
Chapter 46: Friday Night

Part VII: When Everything Changed

Chapter 47: “Shoot, Shoot!”
Chapter 48: Guns in the Park
Chapter 49: The Dead
Chapter 50: Among the Living
Chapter 51: Sympathy’s End
Chapter 52: Only the Horses
Chapter 53: Juliet #2
Chapter 54: A Dream of Love
Chapter 55: As Darkness Fell

Epilogue: The Queer Bird in Exile

Coda: “Table Talk”

Sources and Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Photo Credits

About the Author

Endpaper Map

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