Follow the gruesome case with detective Willi Krauss in The Children of Wrath, by Paul Grossman, coming March 2012.
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The great gray Police Presidium loomed over Alexanderplatz like an aging father, forever reminding everyone of the law's inescapability, yet blind to the myriad infractions in full swing beneath its eyes: the prostitution and petty larceny, the passing packs of drugs. Even with the big redevelopment underway that spring of 1930, all the modern buildings and circular traffic patterns would never erase the vice from such a congested commercial heart, only push it deeper into the crevices.
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Paul Grossman is a long time teacher of writing and literature at Hunter College.
Paul Grossman