CRAZY IN BERLIN is the first novel in the saga of Carlo Reinhart. American literature has produced a number of flawed heroes, but none more memorable than Carlo.Reinhart is a young army medic, stationed in Germany during the early days of the Allied occupation. Large, generous, kind-hearted, he c...
I've found Berger's Reinhart novels to be a mixed bag. He was never able to match the quality of the best of them (the second novel, _Reinhart in Love_), and hit a particular low point with the third, _Vital Parts_. This novel, however, shows us a more mature Reinhart and a more mature Berger as ...