Final and appropriately most depressing book in the series. Ends with Hitler assuming power and some of the characters either fleeing to the country, or outright fleeing the country, and an bleak future for everyone else. Covers the continued rise of fascism, abetted by the wealthy and by the police forces. (However, the Army and their part in the rise of the Nazis is absent from all three Berlin books). Still not sure if a city is more than a pile of stones.