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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?

Cansado de su vida en Cuba, en 1954 Bernie Gunther decide abandonar la isla por mar. Su huida no sale como esperaba y es detenido por los servicios secretos estadounidenses, que lo trasladan a una prision alemana. Alli exigen su colaboracion para poder atrapar a un poderoso comunista de la joven Alemania Oriental: Erich Mielke. Hay que leer los libros de Bernie Gunther, empezando por la trilogia berlinesa y acabando con Gris de campaña. TOM HANKS

«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

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.

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.

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

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....

En 1989, el escritor escocés Philip Kerr publicó su primera novela, Violetas de marzo, en la que también debutó su peculiar detective, Bernie Gunther, un ex agente de la Kripo -la temida policía criminal del III Reich- especializado en buscar a personas desaparecidas. En esta primera entrega, la accion se situa en el Berlin de 1936, cuando la ciudad se preparaba para acoger los Juegos Olimpicos. En 1990 aparecio Palido criminal, en la que Gunther se ve obligado a reincorporarse a la Kipro para investigar los asesinatos de varias adolescentes alemanas ocurridos en 1938. Por ultimo, un año mas tarde, vio la luz la tercera parte de esta trilogia, Requiem aleman. Ambientada en 1947, tras la derrota de la Alemania nazi, Gunther se ve envuelto en la intrincada trama de los servicios de inteligencia internacionales, en los albores de la Guerra Fria. Escritas con un estilo incisivo y agil, de facil lectura, revestidas de un impresionante trabajo de documentacion y trufadas de violencia fulgurante y dialogos sardonicos, en el mejor estilo chandleriano, estas novelas muestran, a traves de la evolucion de su protagonista, el ascenso y caida de la Alemania nazi. El Cultural de El Mundo Meticuloso, ironico y esplendidamente documentado, el escoces va hilvanando la trama mientras intenta ofrecer una vision panoramica y completa del Berlin de los años treinta. ABC Puro Chandler. The Observer La labor de documentacion de Kerr es impecable. La forma en que retrata la ciudad de Berlin al borde del cataclismo es conmovedora y valiente a la vez. The Independent Una lectura apasionante: la mezcla perfecta de imaginacion, inteligencia y accion. The Times

Mars 1943. Le Reich vient de perdre Stalingrad. Pour Joseph Goebbels, il faut absolument redonner le moral à l'armée allemande et porter un coup aux Alliés. Or sur le territoire soviétique, près d

Scott Manson, ancien entraîneur du club de London City, cherche du travail. Malgré quelques entretiens d'embauche en Écosse, a Nice et a Shanghai, le cœur n'y est pas : son club et ses joueurs lui manquent. Aussi, lorsque Barcelone fait appel a ses talents de détective pour retrouver Jérôme Dumas, la nouvelle pépite du football mondial, Scott y voit l'occasion de passer a autre chose.Récemment transféré du PSG, le joueur ne s'est jamais présenté a l'entraînement. S'est-il enfui ? A-t-il été kidnappé ? Est-il seulement vivant ? Scott a un mois pour retrouver sa trace.La Feinte de l'attaquant, troisième et dernier tome de la série Scott Manson, nous entraîne dans les coulisses du football international, où la tromperie et l'argent taclent souvent le beau jeu.Philip Kerr ajoute au panthéon des héros de polar un nouveau type d'enquêteur : un manageur de foot. Macha Séry, Le Monde des livres.

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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.

A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels.Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps - whatever they are - will be decided.Into this nest of double- and triple-dealing steps Willard Mayer, OSS agent and FDR's envoy to the conference. His job is to secure the peace that the USA and Hitler now crave. The stakes couldn't be higher.With his sure hand for pacing, his firm grasp of historical detail, and his explosively crea...

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

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, au milieu des années 1950. Bernie Gunther, ancien détective, est devenu concierge du Grand-Hôtel sous une identité d'emprunt. Il rencontre Somerset Maugham, qui lui demande son aide. L'écrivain est victime d'un maître chanteur qui détient des photos compromettantes où il figure en compagnie d'Anthony Blunt et de Guy Burgess, deux des traîtres de la bande de Cambridge.

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.

Été 1943. Joseph Goebbels, ministre chargé de la propagande, demande a Bernie Gunther de retrouver la splendide Dalia Dresner, étoile montante du cinéma allemand en fuite a Zurich. Le détective ne peut refuser. Très vite, cette mission, a priori aussi engageante que l'objet de la recherche, prend un tour bien sinistre. Le père de la belle est un Croate antisémite de la première heure, sadique notoire, qui dirige un camp de concentration, tristement célèbre, de la région. Au même moment, la police suisse exige que Gunther fasse la lumière sur une vieille affaire qui risque de compromettre des proches de Hitler...On tremble, on rit, on doute, emporté sans ménagement dans un dédale de péripéties où l'humour côtoie la tragédie. Yetty Hagendorf, Historia.