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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 notorious 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.

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.

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 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...

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations ndash; a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin''s Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. The discovery of two bodies ndash; one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer ndash; involves Bernie in the lives of two hotel guests. One is a beautiful left-wing journalist intent on persuading America to boycott the Berlin Olympiad; the other is a German-Jewish gangster who plans to use the Olympics to enrich himself and the Chicago mob. As events unfold, Bernie uncovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are prepared to spend to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolution Cuba, the country to which Bernie flees from Argentina at the end of A Quiet Flame.

Bernie Gunther, Berlin's hardest-boiled private eye, returns in this latest outing. Moving the plot from pre-war Germany to the dangers of Argentina, Kerr yet again delivers a powerful, compelling thriller. Redolent with atmosphere, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-Semitism under the Perons.

Un año después de abandonar la Policía Criminal alemana, Bernie Gunther trabaja en el Hotel Adlon, en donde se aloja la periodista norteamericana Noreen Charalambides, que ha llegado a Berlín para investigar el creciente fervor antijudio y la sospechosa designacion de la ciudad como sede de los Juegos Olimpicos de 1936. Noreen y Gunther se aliaran dentro y fuera de la cama para seguirle la pista a una trama que une las altas esferas del nazismo con el crimen organizado estadounidense. Noreen es obligada a volver a Estados Unidos, y Gunther ve como, otra vez, una mujer se pierde en las sombras. Hasta que veinte años despues, ambos se reencuentran en la insurgente Habana de Batista. Pero los fantasmas nunca viajan solos.

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.

1938, Berlín. El ex policía Bernie Gunther sigue indagando por su cuenta en el horror de su ciudad, una Berlín totalmente volcada al nacional-socialismo, cuando es víctima del chantaje del propio Heydrich, a quien Hitler veia como su sucesor, para que vuelva al cuerpo de policia. Palido criminal es la segunda parte de una trilogia que comienza en 1936, cuando los amigos judios de Bernie acaban de descubrir que es demasiado tarde para huir, y que termina en 1948, cuando ya los aliados creen haber salvado al mundo. Y es que, si algo descubre el incorruptible Bernie Gunther en Berlin Noir, es la noche oscura en el corazon de los hombres como una fuente literaria inagotable y atemporal.

Gil Martins est un agent du FBI qui lutte contre le terrorisme depuis Houston, Texas. Il est le témoin quotidien d''actes de violence perpétrés par des extrémistes de toutes sortes. Autrefois croyant, la realite cruelle de son travail le porte a remettre en question l''existence de Dieu, ce qui provoque de fortes tensions avec sa femme, Ruth.Lorsque plusieurs personnalites athees dont un professeur de biologie, un obstetricien et un journaliste sont victimes d''attentats aussi etranges qu inexpliques, Martins lance une enquete malgre le scepticisme de ses superieurs. Ses recherches l''amenent a l''Eglise Izrael, ou une jeune membre de sa congregation, terrifiee, est convaincue que les victimes ont ete tuees par leurs prieres. Martins doute de sa sante mentale mais quand cette derniere est retrouvee morte a son tour, il decouvre chez elle une liste de noms ; une liste de toutes les victimes jusque-la... et bien d''autres encore.Determine a arreter cette barbarie, Gil Martins s''approche de la source des prieres et semble devenir lui-meme la cible d''un Dieu vengeur. Sa seule planche de salut sera de faire penitence...

Été 1943. Joseph Goebbels, ministre chargé de la propagande, demande à Bernie Gunther de retrouver la splendide Dalia Dresner, étoile montante du cinéma allemand en fuite à Zurich. Le détective ne pe

It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, Bernie was summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wants the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany.

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New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr brings Bernie Gunther—now hiding out on the French Riviera—face to face with an old and dangerous enemy. Cornered and with his cover blown, Gunther finds himself back in a cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues to shadow his life. Forced to make a run for it before the French surete arrest him for murder or the GDR's Stasi succeed in killing him, Gunther heads for Berlin, hoping there are still a few old friends left who can help.

It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wanted the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany

The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Prague Fatale" and "Field Gray" is "in a league with John le Carre" ("The Washington Post") Berlin, March 1943. A month has passed since Stalingrad and morale is low. Then Berlin learns of a Red massacre of Polish troops near Smolensk. In a rare instance of agreement, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched. In Smolensk, Prussian aristocrats look down at the wise-cracking Berlin bull. But Bernie doesn't care about fitting in. He only wants to uncover the identity of a savage killer--before becoming a victim himself.

UN THRILLER QUE CONTIENE TODA LA PASIÓN, LA SEDUCCIÓN Y LA CORRUPCIÓN DEL MUNDO DEL FÚTBOL Scott Manson es, ni más ni menos, el segundo entrenador del London City FC, un equipo de la Premier League. Carismatico y amado por sus jugadores tanto como por la prensa y la directiva, se sabe todos los entresijos del juego, dentro y fuera del campo. Pero, como si no hubiera bastante con la alta competicion, el director tecnico del equipo aparece asesinado en el estadio del London City. Un crimen que parece conectado con mareantes cifras de fichajes, la exigencia deportiva y las miserias humanas. Scott Manson debera encargarse de descubrir al asesino.