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Año 1950. Bernie Gunther deja Berlín huyendo de una absurda acusación y llega a Buenos Aires. Allí se entera del brutal asesinato de una joven, que por su peculiar modus operandi guarda inquietantes similitudes con otro asesinado que el investigo cuando ejercia de detective de homicidios en la agitada epoca de la Republica de Weimar. Un crimen que no ha olvidado porque quedo sin resolver. La coincidencia en el metodo dificilmente puede ser una simple casualidad. Y es que en la Argentina de Peron han encontrado refugio muchos criminales nazis que han huido de Europa para salvar el pellejo y crearse una nueva identidad que les permita dejar atras el pasado. Pero este, aunque sea en forma de escabroso asesinato, siempre vuelve. Y Bernie Gunher, a regañadientes, acepta ayudar a la policia argentina a atrapar al criminal antes de que vuelva a matar Una llama misteriosa (Serie Bernie Gunther, 5) esta ambientada en la mitica Buenos Aires de los años cincuenta y en ella aparecen personajes nazis reales como Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Otto Skorzeny y Hans Kammler, todos ellos conectados de un modo u otro con el siniestro secreto que el detective tiene que descubrir.

The first in a gripping new series of thrillers set in the glamorous world of Premier League football.Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death. But this time, it's murder.Scot Manson: team coach for London City FC and all-round fixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him.But now the team's manager has been found dead at their home stadium.Even Scott can't smooth over murder... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

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An intense psychological thriller from the "New York Times "bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series Acclaimed for his historical mysteries, Philip Kerr seamlessly shifts to a present-day setting with "Prayer." Gil Martins, an agent with the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, sees the violence wrought by extremists of all kinds. Gil has always been on the side of justice--until he learns something that shakes his faith in the system, in himself, and in God. Desperate, he prays, begging to know God is there. When a serial killer begins targeting the morally righteous at the same time that a number of secular icons come under attack, Gil realizes that his prayers are being answered in a most terrifying way.

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

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.

Gil Martins, an agent with the FBIs Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, confronts the violence generated by extremism within our nations borders every day. He sees hatred and destruction wrought by every kind of ism there is, and the zealots who kill in their names. Until now, he has always been a part of the solutionhowever imperfecta part of justice. But when Gil discovers he played a key role in wrongly condemning an innocent man to death row, it shakes his faithin the system, in himself, and in Goddeeply. It even estranges him from his wife and son. Desperate, Gil offers up a prayer. To know God is there, not through a sign or physical demonstration but through the strength to cope with his ever-growing, ever-creeping doubts.His problems become more than personal as things heat up in Houston. A serial killer terrorizing the morally righteous turns out to have religious motivations, upping the case from homicide to domestic terrorism. A number of prominent secular icons die or are grievously injured abruptly and under suspicious circumstances, the latest of which is a New Atheist writer whos fallen into an inexplicable coma. Left and right, it seems Gil cant escape the power of God and murder.As Gil investigates both cases, he realizes that there may be a connectionanswering his prayers in a most terrifying way.

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.

From New York Timesbestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as the best crime novels around today.Once Id been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his past await Bernie Gunther at the French Riviera.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.

FÚTBOL. CRIMEN. SEXO. LA SERIE DE LA CHAMPIONS El equipo de Scott Manson disputa un partido crucial de la Champions en Atenas. La derrota sería una mala noticia pero no la peor. Una de las estrellas cae fulminada sobre el cesped. ¿Un ataque al corazon o algo mas turbio?

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....

Tout le monde sait que le football, c'est souvent une question de vie ou de mort... Scott Manson est l'entraîneur du club de football de London City. C'est la bonne étoile de l'équip

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...

From New York Timesbestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as the best crime novels around today. A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Ministerclose confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the Propaganda Ministers command. This time, the favor is personal. And this time, nothing is what it seems. Set down amid the killing fields of Ustashe-controlled Croatia, Bernie finds himself in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden agenda. Perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no one.

Berlín, 1938. El ambiente se ha enrarecido en Alemania. Desde la ascensión al poder del Partido Nazi, las frías calles berlinesas que Bernie Gunther tan bien conoce están repletas de señales que conducen al pais hacia el odio, el terror y quiza la guerra. El detective Gunther, antiguo agente de policia, se vera obligado a reincorporarse al cuerpo y colaborar con unas autoridades que detesta tanto como teme. Aunque lo que preocupa a sus superiores no es banal: un criminal anda suelto, violando y asesinando a inocentes muchachas de raza aria, sin que nadie consiga darle caza. Pero ¿que sucedera cuando Gunther descubra que en el caso estan implicados varios miembros de las SS, entre quienes figura nada mas y nada menos que el mismisimo Heinrich Himmler? Palido criminal (Serie Bernie Gunther, 2), segunda entrega de la trilogia "Berlin Noir", embrion de la exitosa serie protagonizada por el detective Bernie Gunther, reune lo mejor de la literatura policiaca y de la ficcion historica. Con unos personajes magnificamente trazados y una trama vibrante, esta novela consolido a Philip Kerr como uno de los mejores escritores de su genero.

Múnich, 1949. Harto de ocuparse del hotel de su suegro, situado a un paso del campo de concentración de Dachau, y con su esposa ingresada en una institución mental, el detective Bernie Gunther decide aceptar un caso que no le presagia nada bueno: ir tras los pasos de uno de los muchos espias de las SS capaz de infiltrarse entre las filas aliadas y encontrar refugio en America. Pero, como se temia desde el principio, en Alemania nada es lo que parece, y Gunther pronto se encontrara navegando en aguas revueltas: su busqueda se vera atrapada en la guerra secreta que libran organizaciones dedicadas a ocultar antiguos nazis y agencias de inteligencia especializadas en asesinarlos. Todas ellas, por supuesto, con poderosos aliados internacionales. Unos por otros (Serie Bernie Gunther, 4) es un apasionante thriller en que Philip Kerr va mas alla de lo que podria esperarse de una novela negra: a la accion, la intriga, los giros argumentales y la siempre creciente tension narrativa, aqui se le une un trasfondo historico aun mas terrible por ser dolorosamente autentico.

A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying. Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

«El horror no necesita de la oscuridad, y a veces un acto malvado de verdad elude las sombras». A principios de 1943, llegan a Berlín noticias de una ejecución en masa de prisioneros polacos cometida

Berlín-Viena, 1947. La guerra ha terminado, pero escarbando en las ruinas del esplendor imperial de Viena el veterano Bernie Gunther hace un descubrimiento histórico al lado del cual las atrocidades cometidas en el pasado parecen obra de aficionados. A medida que avanza en su investigacion, el detective destapa una red de falsificacion susceptible de cambiar la identidad a antiguos altos cargos nazis que tratan de enmascarar su pasado. En una Europa aun herida y humillada, Gunther se vera obligado a sortear todo tipo de peligros para llegar hasta el fondo de un sucio asunto que, para las muchas victimas del regimen nazi, es algo mas que una cuestion de justicia. Requiem aleman (Serie Bernie Gunther, 3) cierra la trilogia "Berlin Noir", embrion de la exitosa serie protagonizada por el detective Bernie Gunther. Ambientada en los inicios de la Guerra Fria, esta novela no solo atrapa por su excitante ritmo y creciente intriga, sino tambien por ser un vivo retrato de una epoca crucial de la historia.