ROSA – JONATHAN RABB

ROSA                                                  
Jonathan Rabb

Paperback, November 2007 
£10.99, 416 pp,  978 1 905559 04 6





A murdered revolutionary, a vicious serial killer, a city in chaos, all lead to Rosa. – by the author of The Book of Q

November 1918: socialist revolution is sweeping across Germany, transforming war-ravaged Berlin into a political battleground.  Five women from the slums are found murdered, all with identical markings on their back.  When the sixth turns out to be the socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the case turns political with the Polpo, the political police, complicating the investigations of Detective Inspector Nikolai Hoffner and his assistant Hans Fichte.

Jonathan Rabb is a political theorist and lives in New York City. 


'... a novel so richly drawn, so dark and so compelling it reaches into your gut and holds on tight...'
     Detroit Free Press


'Rabb gives us a dreadful Berlin, a sinister Polpo, the sound of boots, the smell of corpses, patterns of guilt as runic as lace gloves and city streets, and a ghostly noir that could have been conspired at by Raymond Chandler and André Malraux.'
     Harper's Magazine

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     Socialist Review
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