A Cold Rain in Berlin.A COLD RAIN IN BERLIN. Julian Jay Savarin. 2002. Read by Terry Wale wale n. A mark raised on the skin, as by a whip; a weal or welt. v. To raise marks on the skin, as by whipping. . 6 tapes. 8 hrs. Soundings Audiobooks. 1-84283-561-0. $69.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. A This is a police procedural a la Clive Cussler or Tom Clancy. Hauptkomissar Muller of the Berlin Police has odd hair and an earring earring, a personal adornment, sometimes an amulet, worn attached to the ear lobe. Since prehistoric times the ear has been pierced for the insertion of the earring; certain primitive tribes distort the lobe with plugs several inches in diameter or with heavy stones. . He gets up the nose of his superior but gets the job done. In this case the job is finding the black man who is shooting skinhead skinhead Member of an international youth subculture characterized by hair and dress styles evoking aggression and physical toughness. Typical skinhead style includes shaved heads, combat boots, tattoos, and prominent body piercings. bigots. Is the killer trying to start a race war in a Germany suspicious of immigrants? To make his job more difficult, he has been saddled with Carey Bloomfield, an American journalist who also dislikes following orders. Muller and Bloomfield fall in love while saving the civilized world from crazies. The villains are ruthless, the violence and threat are relentless, and the good guys are resourceful and attractive. Muller is from the upper class, wears expensive suits, and drives a Porsche. He drives as fast as the plot itself moves, so fasten your seat belt. Narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. Wale, a British actor, convincingly creates the accents and disparate characters from German radicals to an African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. soldier. Obscenities, racial slurs, and violence. More books are planned in this new series. Janet Julian, Grafton, MA |
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