Amazon.com description: Product Description: Un apasionante y cinematografico misterio en el Berlin de entreguerras. A finales de los años veinte, el cine aleman supera en calidad a cualquier otro. Los actores y los directores reciben el apoyo incondicional del Estado, que financia los mejores estudios del mundo: los de la UFA. Berlin vive una epoca dominada por el esplendor del expresionismo y una agitada vida nocturna, mientras el nazismo asciende al amparo de una durisima crisis economica. En este apasionante contexto, un importante productor de cine perteneciente a la familia Thyssen aparece muerto. Con la ayuda del mitico director de cine Fritz Lang (que se recupera del fracaso de Metropolis) y del lider del mayor sindicato del crimen berlines, el detective Nikolai Hoffner se sumergira en las cloacas de la decadente Republica de Weimar. En la investigacion hallara misteriosas actrices que aspiran a convertirse en las nuevas Greta Garbo, productores con oscuros intereses y un desenlace inesperado, que influira decisivamente en el futuro de Europa. / Berlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang (the German director) and Alby Pimm (leader of the most powerful crime syndicate in Berlin), Hoffner finds his case taking him beyond the world of film and into the far more treacherous landscape of Berlins sex and drug trade, the rise of Hitlers Brownshirts (the SA), and the even more astonishing attempts by onetime monarchists to rearm a post-Versailles Germany. Being swept up in the case are Hoffners new lover, an American talent agent for Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer, and his two sons: Georg, who has dropped out of school to work at Ufa, and Sascha, his angry, older son, who, unknown to his father, has become fully entrenched in the new German Workers Party as the aide to its Berlin leader, Joseph Goebbels.