Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international bestselling series from Volker Kutscher. When a body bearing traces of torture turns up in the canal Detective Inspector Gereon Rath is dragged into Weimar Berlin’s underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning, and shady politics. Babylon Berlin is the first book in the international bestselling series from Volker Kutscher. When a body bearing traces of torture turns up in the canal Detective Inspector Gereon Rath is dragged into Weimar Berlin’s underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning, and shady politics.