The Register of Last Guests: A gripping WWII historical thriller set in Nazi Berlin on the night of Kristallnacht

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One hotel. One night. One man who controls every name on the list.Berlin, November 9, 1938. Outside the Hotel Adler, the city is burning.Karl Brenner has managed the night desk for seven years. He knows his thirty-four guests by their luggage, their habits, and the small lies they tell at check-in. Tonight, he knows something else: five of them will not survive until morning if their names appear on the register that the SS officer on the fifth floor has demanded by seven a.m.Karl has no weapons. He has a pen, a duty log, twelve keys, and twenty-two years of making danger sound like procedure.Before dawn, he will rewrite the record.A taut, atmospheric WWII thriller for readers of Pam Jenoff, Alan Hlad, and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.In the tradition of the best wartime fiction, The Last Register unfolds in real time across a single night, building unbearable tension through the instruments of bureaucracy — a passport stamp slightly too fresh, a wallet left where no frightened man would leave it, a notation in a lost-property ledger that could save a life or end one. At the center is Karl Brenner: a man whose professional precision conceals a moral failure he has spent three years trying not to name, and who must decide, before sunrise, whether the register he controls is a tool of the state or a final act of witness.Five guests. One night. The record that decides who disappears. Read more