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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.

Bernie Gunther is back, in deeper trouble than ever in this new novel from the master of the historical thriller.Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself.But Dresner''s father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie''s stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.

El hecho de que el fútbol sea un juego no significa que tengas que juegar limpio. El entrenador Scott Manson necesita un nuevo puesto de trabajo, la búsqueda de un objetivo en el mundo lleno de estrellas del futbol internacional no es facil. Una nueva posicion en Shanghai resulta ser una operacion ficticia, y en Barcelona no esta contratado como director de futbol sino como detective. El jugador estrella del Barca esta desaparecido, y Scott: tiene un mes para encontrar su pista....

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...

As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie Gunther is caught between violently opposing factions. Kerr´s two most recent Gunther novels were shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award.

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.

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Un apasionante tecno-thriller protagonizado por un superordenador que no está dispuesto a limitarse a cumplir órdenes.Un apasionante tecno-thriller protagonizado por un superordenador que no está dispuesto a limitarse a cumplir ordenes.En la ciudad de Los Angeles se inaugura un modernisimo rascacielos informatizado regido por un superordenador al que han puesto el nombre de Abraham. De pronto, en el edificio se empiezan a producir extrañas muertes -primero un tecnico informatico, despues un guarda de seguridad... -que la policia no sabe si catalogar como accidentes o asesinatos.Los dos principales sospechosos son el estudiante que encabeza las manifestaciones contra el propietario de la constructora, un multimillonario de origen chino simpatizante del Gobierno comunista de Pekin, y uno de los tecnicos del equipo del arquitecto responsable del proyecto, que se ha peleado con el. Otra posible explicacion es que el edificio, segun las teorias de una empresa en embrujos tradicionales chinos, esta maldito. Pero acaso el verdadero culpable no sea humano ni tenga nada que ver con antiguas brujerias...Phillip Kerr, que ya demostro sus dotes narrativas con la trepidanteUna investigacion filosofica, ha escrito un apasionante tecno-thriller protagonizado por un superordenador capaz de poner en jaque a policias, arquitectos y tecnicos informaticos. Como el Hal de2001, una odisea en el espacio, Abraham no esta dispuesto a limitarse a cumplir ordenes...Un escritor imaginativo y agudo. Una novela de culto (Daily Mail).Un thriller alucinante, solido e inteligente, que hara que los lectores se lo piensen dos veces la proxima vez que decidan entrar en un rascacielos, y tres la proxima que decidan encender un ordenador (Publishers Weekly).ComoUna investigacion filosofica, su anterior novela,El infierno digital propone una aguda mirada sobre el futuro, apoyada por una trama muy bien documentada y que atrapa irremisiblemente al lector (Nick Curtis).Una importante reflexion sobre la tecnologia de la arquitectura y la informacion (Julian Ferrara,Times Literary Supplement).Mantiene el suspense y estremece hasta la ultima pagina... Una novela excelente (San Jose Mercury News).

«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