| A German Requiem: A Bernie Gunther Novel Contributor(s): Kerr, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142004022 ISBN-13: 9780142004029 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy Philip Kerrs 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006040625 |
| Series: Bernie Gunther Novel |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.60 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Germany - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Post-World War 2, Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of an American Nazi-hunter amongst the ruins of the Third Reich in this riveting thriller in Philip Kerr's bestselling historical mystery series. Vienna, 1947. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Bernie is in Vienna, trying to clear an old friend and ex-Kripo colleague of the murder of an American officer. Amid decaying imperial splendor Bernie traces concentric circles of evil that lead him to a former head of the Gestapo and to a legacy that makes the atrocities of the war seem lily-white in comparison... |