The Kaiser's Web

Two candidates are competing to become Chancellor of Germany, and both carry secrets connected to a single day in 1945: April 30, the day Hitler and Eva Braun died in the Führerbunker, or did not die, and the day billions in Nazi wealth began its disappearance into the postwar financial system. Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is drawn from Lake Como into a hunt that takes him from Chile to South Africa to Switzerland as the truth about what actually happened in the bunker threatens to rewrite European history and determine Germany's political future.

Scott Brick navigates Berry's characteristic multi-timeline thriller with the fluency that comes from extended inhabitation of the series. His performance gives the Second World War material its proper historical gravity while maintaining the thriller's forward momentum, and he handles the political conspiracy and the historical investigation as equal parts of the same story. The audiobook suits Berry's approach because Brick can signal the shifts between timelines and locations without the white-space cues of print.