The One from the Other
Philip Kerr 's Berlin Noir trilogy- featuring the tough, fast-talking detective Bernie Gunther-is a publishing phenomenon that continues to win new fans more than fifteen years after its initial publication. Kerr has brought Bernie back in this highly anticipated thriller that will delight fans...
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Philip Kerr 's Berlin Noir trilogy- featuring the tough, fast-talking detective Bernie Gunther-is a publishing phenomenon that continues to win new fans more than fifteen years after its initial publication. Kerr has brought Bernie back in this highly anticipated thriller that will delight fans of the original books and attract new attention to the backlist. It is 1949 and-after being forced to serve in the SS in the killing fields of Ukraine-Bernie has moved to Munich to reestablish himself as a private investigator. When the beautiful Frau Britta Warzok hires him for an apparently simple job, Bernie's suspicions flare, but the money is too good to turn down. Soon, Bernie is on the run, because in postwar Germany, it's hard to know friends from enemies, the one from the other.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143112297 (0143112295)
Publish date: February 3rd 2009
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Detective,
War,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
World War II,
Germany
Series: Bernard Gunther (#4)
Having listened to the author talk about these books, I decided to go back to them. Very glad I did too, now I know that all he writes about is based on fact. Never liked the 'hard-boiled' detective a la Philip Marlow, but the writing is good enough, the subject matter enthralling, the characters re...
I really can't rate this book highly enough. The author's knowledge of pre-and post war Germany is amazing for someone who does not, as far as I can see, have any direct connection with the Country. The way, through his wonderful creation, Bernie Gunther, he investigates the competing pressures on o...
I recall loving Bernie Gunther, and recommend the first three books often. (But it's been now some years since I read them. Buyer beware.) The collision of a noir vision (an endemic social corruption, a bitterly-funny protagonist bleakly trying to just get by and occasionally drawn into the moral m...
Former Berlin PI Bernie Gunther, running his wife's family hotel near Dachau after the war, decides to get back into the PI business and is hired by a woman looking for confirmation that her husband, a former SS concentration camp commander, is dead. It is nice to read about Bernie again and while ...
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