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"Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the...
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"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as "the best crime novels around today." A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin...
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Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into [a] world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the warring factions of the Nazi apparatus. Itis now 1954 and Bernie, who has been unceremoniously kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced in Cuba with a new life, seemingly one of routine and relative peace. He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days, who is mysteriously...
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Bernie Gunther novel volume 13
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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It's 1957 and Bernie Gunther is back in Munich, though his passport now says 'Christof Ganz.' The war is over and Gunther is finally just another face in the crowd, an ordinary claims adjuster at a major German insurance company. Until he's sent to Athens to investigate a large claim. The policy owner, a rude and angry former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war, is now a filmmaker and diver, the owner of a two-masted schooner--the...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
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465 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Berlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death. For once, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels...
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2009
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262 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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The seventy-something private investigator Gerhard Self is hired to track down a mysterious silent bank partner, a case which eventually leads him to eastern Germany and some of the most dangerous villains he has ever met.
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