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...

In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich's staff.

"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...

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...