'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD
Bernie Gunther has learned the hard way that there's no way to distinguish 'the one from the other'. The cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and foe - a lifesaving skill in the dangerous years of postwar Germany.
Munich, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It's work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She just wants confirmation that he's dead.
It's a simple enough job. But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple...
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781847242921
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 292 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 26 mm
One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction … pure Chandler. Powerful and impressive. Welcome back - Observer - Observer
Kerr brilliantly evokes the edgy atmosphere of the post-war period in one of the most gripping and accomplished detective novels published so far this year - Sunday Times - Sunday Times
I was given this book and put it at the bottom of a pile that needed reading. Oh how I wish I had started immediately.
The book takes an unusal angle and from a difficult time in European history. A time that can...
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Picked this up free with the current Books Quarterly magazine and to be honest I wasn't expecting much. However I was very much surprised by this book. The book kicks off with a visit to Palestine by Bernie... More
The very talented Mr Kerr presents his character Bernie Gunther in another captivating experience set in and around Germany before and after WW2. Neither pure mysteries or thrillers they are heavily atmospheric... More
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