- Mass Market Paperback: 279 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440212170
- ISBN-13: 978-0440212171
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 11.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,110,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1975 - Chicago - Actor Will Walker is haunted by terrifying visions of his brutal boyhood in war-ravaged Berlin. Desperate to fill in the missing pieces of his long ago life, he turns to hypnotic therapy-and journeys back through the shadowy recesses of his mind into a harrowing past he can't remember ...and the chilling crime he can never forget. 1945 - Berlin - Thirty years before, his name was Wilhelm Berndt - a young German boy struggling to survive amid the horrors of Nazi Germany. But his world exploded into searing violence the tragic day his beloved mother was gunned down by a nameless, faceless killer...a killer whose identity is slowly, horrifyingly, beginning to emerge.... Now Will must fight for his sanity and his life as he uncovers the shocking truth about his dark past-a;nd comes face to face with the most shattering betrayal of all.....
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Opens with a bang and doesn't let up!
10 July 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When I studied writing techniques for mysteries, one of the first lessons I learned was that if you don't have your dead body show up in the first chapter, you had better have it in the second chapter. Deadfall In Berlin immediately takes the reader to the book's central murder and then catapults the reader into a psychological mystery that is both extraordinary and rivetting.
Will is an actor living in Chicago in 1975 who has been going through hynoptherapy when at home and alone during an autohypnosis session, he regresses back to when he was 10 years old, living in war-torn Berlin during the Allied bombing. He witnesses his mother's murder, but the details are sketchy. When he tells his therapist of the experience, he finds that he is being stalked by a mystery person apparently bent on killing him. Is that person the same as who killed Will's mother? To find out, his therapist sends him into a deep trance back to Berlin to relive those last few days when one of the most glorious cities in Europe was reduced to rubble.
The descriptions of Berlin during the Allied bombing are incredible. Zimmerman did his historical homework well. The tale he weaves moves quickly, but smoothly. There were no lapses in plausibility: the descriptions and character actions are entirely believable. This the first book by Zimmerman I have read, and you can be sure that I will read more.
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