A German Requiem
The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial...
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The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142004029 (0142004022)
ASIN: 142004022
Publish date: August 29th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
War,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
World War II,
Germany
Series: Bernard Gunther (#3)
A March Violet, using the definition of that time, meant somone who lately came to Nazism more as a personal survival strategy than a conviction and that basically was Bernie Gunther's stance in book #1. I haven't been able to lay my hands on #2 The Pale Criminal, which is a shame because it would h...