A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Novel
Bernie Gunther returns to trail a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with...
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Bernie Gunther returns to trail a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with Alan Furst, John le Carré, and Graham Greene. A Quiet Flame finds Gunther in Argentina, circa 1950, where he- falsely accused of Nazi war crimes-has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But the tough, fast-talking detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low when a serial killer- whose crimes may reach back to Berlin before the war-is mutilating young girls. Taut, gritty, and loaded with evocative historical detail, A Quiet Flame is among Kerr's best work yet.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143116486 (0143116487)
Publish date: February 23rd 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
World War II,
Germany
Series: Bernard Gunther (#5)
Some books are never meant to be happy. Although in a Crime novel the outcome, most of the time, provides a solution to a crime, and brings a criminal to justice, but often it also leaves the reader with sadness. Either connected to a character, or to the general atmosphere created by the book. A QU...
I got this as a giveaway and I'm glad I did because how did Philip Kerr slip under my thriller radar?Our protagonist here is a private detective by the name of Bernie Gunther, an ex-cop with a wise-cracking, sarcastic sense of humor. It took a little while but once I saw what his personality was lik...
I'm now going to leave Bernie Gunther right where he is, should have stopped after the Berlin Noir trilogy.------ Read By: Jeff Harding Genre: Thriller Series Name: Bernie Gunther Position in Series: #5 Abridged: NoBlurbs - Posing as an es...
Another remarkable story from Philip Kerr. This time chapters fluctuate between 1932 where our 'hero' Bernie Gunter is a policeman investigating a so-called 'Lust Murder' of a crippled young girl, the daughter of a prominent Nazis and 1950 - having escaped to Argentina with Adolf Eichmann, where he ...
Good book. A flawed protagonist who's decent enough to root for. A seductive love interest. Plenty of plot twiats and things to think about. I thought the celebrity angle was a bit over-played.
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