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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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"New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the criminal gangs, the perverse sex clubs, and the laundry...
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In 1954, Bernie Gunther is arrested smuggling a woman out of Cuba and is soon being being questioned in the United States and Germany about war crimes. As the interrogations continue, Bernie, a former German homicide detective and private investigator who served unwillingly in the SS during World War II, reveals the story of his life while cracking jokes and playing his enemies off against each other, even with his life at risk.
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1950: Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Argentina with hopes of a new life and a clean passport. But Argentina, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind.
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Bernie Gunther, once Commissar of the Third Reich, is on the run from Erich Mielke, the deputy head of Stasi, and reminisces about a case he investigated seventeen years earlier in which someone shot an engineer on the terrace of Hitler's private residence.
The French Riviera, 1956. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's calling in a debt. Mielke wants Bernie go to London with the vial of Thallium, to...
6) Berlin noir
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Now in one volume—the first three novels in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling historical mystery series starring hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther...
“A Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings. Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain truly clean.”—John Powers, Fresh Air (NPR)
Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther...
“A Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings. Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain truly clean.”—John Powers, Fresh Air (NPR)
Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther...
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