Wolf Among Wolves by Hans FalladaRead about another book on the list.
Set in 1923 against the collapse of the economy, an appropriately inflated Zeitroman about epic gambling: “It was useless for Pagel to change his club, although at that time the number of gambling hells was as the sands of the sea, just as everywhere there were heroin and cocaine, “snow”, nude dances, French champagne and American cigarettes, influenza, hunger, despair, fornication and crime.”
--Marshal Zeringue