The Times (London)
The pace is cracking, the dialogue crisply Chandleresque, the mise-en-scene and characterisation refreshingly stereotype free... Bernie Gunther is an iconic creation and each book a treat to look forward to.
Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this “richly satisfying mystery ... that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own” (Los Angeles Times).
Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad ...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life.
But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days ...
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Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad ...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life.
But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days ...
If the Dead Rise Not
Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this “richly satisfying mystery ... that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own” (Los Angeles Times).
Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad ...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life.
But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days ...
Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad ...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life.
But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days ...
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170966738 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 12/10/2010 |
| Series: | Bernie Gunther Series , #6 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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