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Garden of Beasts, Jeffrey Deaver

An odd ending . . . how many books about Nazi Germany in 1936 end on an upbeat note. Paul survives. He rescues the Fisher boys and Katya and gets them out of Nazi Germany. His German buddy Weber is shot in the stomach, floats off to die, but is rescued and lives. Paul himself escapes to continue on, correcting God's mistakes. The German detective that we admire does an admirable switch of passports to allow Paul to escape. Even Ernst, who was going to gas a dozen young men as part of an experiment, has a soul-searching moment of illumination.

Excellent writing . . . but the happy ending seemed forced to me.

(The spelling of the various character's names is quite likely incorrect. I listened to this book on Audible.)

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