by Jeffery Deaver · Editorial Suma de Letras · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496463424
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«El jardín de las fieras» is the suspense and action novel by Jeffery Deaver, published by Editorial Suma de Letras in hardback (495 pages, in Spanish).
In 1936, Paul Schumann, a New York mafia thug, is recruited by US intelligence to assassinate Hitler's lieutenant in charge of German rearmament. Turned hunter and prey, he moves through a Berlin where the Olympic Games conceal the Nazi threat while the German police track him.
Originally published in 2004 as Garden of Beasts, the novel won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award. This Spanish edition, translated by Edith Zilli, appeared in April 2006.
For those interested in World War II and in espionage and pursuit plots, with a New York mafia antihero.
Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery and crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a J.D. degree from Fordham University. He began his career as a journalist and later practiced law before embarking on a career as a novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association and the Nero Award from The Wolfe Pack. He is also a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader's Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including The New York Times, The Times, Italy's Corriere della Sera, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the Los Angeles Times.
