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Title: Nasty too
Review: I enjoyed the earthy, impudent and skeptical tone of the narrator-detective, and found the first novel great at conjuring up the atmosphere of Berlin in the early Nazi years, but was disturbed by the vicious homophobia in the second novel, THE PALE CRIMINAL, which plays in part in the gay subculture. While the hero objects to Nazi anti-semitic policies and stresses the need for moral backbone, he apparently fully ENDORSES --without irony-- the Nazis' persecution of homosexuals. The novel is filled with invective against gays, and the protagonist not only endorses sending homosexuals to concentration camps, but enjoys (!) shooting them "between the eyes" himself. I'm frankly surprised that of all the people writing here, nobody has even noticed these hateful diatribes.
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