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If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston''s supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.Houston is the world''s most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

1956. El general Erich Mielke, un alto mando de la Stasi al que no le gustan las negativas como respuesta, ha viajado hasta la Riviera francesa para obligar a Bernie Gunther a asesinar a una mujer. Es una mision suicida y Gunther lo sabe, asi que huir es su unica opcion. Mientras escapa de los agentes de la Stasi, el antiguo detective rememora otro caso: en 1939 fue enviado a Baviera a resolver un asesinato cometido en la segunda residencia de Hitler. Diecisiete años separan ambas historias, pero los vinculos entre pasado y presente nunca se acaban de romper.

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Que el fútbol sea un deporte no implica que haya que jugar limpio. Scott Manson, entrenador de fútbol, está buscando trabajo, pero en el actual mundo del fútbol, plagado de estrellas, no le va a resultar facil encontrarlo. El puesto de entrenador que le ofrecen en Shanghai resulta no ser sino un elaborado timo, y los del F. C. Barcelona no quieren contratarle como entrenador, sino como detective. Por lo visto, una de las estrellas del Barça ha desaparecido y Scott tiene un mes para dar con ella. Mientras sigue el rastro del futbolista desde Paris a Antigua, Scott se topa con hombres corruptos y con mujeres retorcidas, y descubre lo podrido que esta el corazon de tan bello deporte

Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on. Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a ship that has sunk, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an avenging arson attack. Then the claimant is found dead, shot through both eyes. It's a win for Bernie's employers at least: no one to pay out to even if the claim is genuine. But who is behind the murder, and why? Strong-armed into helping the Greek police with their investigation, Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe seems ready to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther''s latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on.Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a ship that has sunk, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an avenging arson attack. Then the claimant is found dead, shot through both eyes. It''s a win for Bernie''s employers at least: no one to pay out to even if the claim is genuine. But who is behind the murder, and why?Strong-armed into helping the Greek police with their investigation, Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe seems ready to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

«Ningú no treballa per als seus enemics si no és que no pot triar gaire», diu en Bernie Gunther. Som a l''any 1954 i en Bernie és a Cuba. Cansat d''espiar a en Meyer Lansky, una feina cada cop més pe

1954. Alors que Bernie Gunther tente de fuir Cuba en bateau accompagné d''une sulfureuse chica, il est arrêté par la CIA et enfermé à New York puis au Landsberg à Berlin. C''est que nous sommes en pl

Berlin, 1934. Bernie Gunther, chassé de la Kripo, gangrenée par les nazis, en raison de ses sympathies pour la république de Weimar, s''est reconverti : il est maintenant responsable de la sécurité de l''Hotel Adlon. Alors qu''il s''echine a effacer de sa genealogie un quart de sang juif, le patron d''une entreprise de construction est assassine dans sa chambre apres avoir passe la soiree avec un homme d''affaires americain vereux, ami de hauts dignitaires nazis. Une seduisante journaliste, chargee par le Herald Tribune d''enqueter sur la preparation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin, engage Bernie. Le sort d''un boxeur juif dont le corps a ete repeche dans la Spree lui semble le bon moyen pour rendre compte du climat de demence meurtriere et de repression antisemite qui regne sur la capitale allemande. Le sixieme volet des enquetes de Bernie Gunther par Philip Kerr, l''auteur de la celebre Trilogie berlinoise.

Bernie Gunther is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr'' bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany. Having learned that there''s no way to distinguish ''the one from the other'', the cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and foe.It is Munich, in the year 1949. Amid the chaos of defeat, it''s home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, and sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It''s work that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She''s not looking to get him back - he''s a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She just wants confirmation that he''s dead. It''s a simple enough job. But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple...

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