If the Dead Rise Not (Bernie Gunther) - Hardcover

Kerr, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399156151 ISBN 13: 9780399156151

Verlag: Putnam, 2010

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An instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series, with storytelling that is fresher and more vivid than ever.

Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the warring factions of the Nazi apparatus.

Havana, 1954: Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is quickly gaining a stranglehold on the city's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, who has been unceremoniously kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced in Cuba with a new life, seemingly one of routine and relative peace. But Bernie discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past: He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days, who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward-and an old lover, who may be the murderer.

If the Dead Rise Not is everything fans have come to expect from Philip Kerr: twisted intrigue, tight plotting, quick-witted one-liners, a hang-by-your- thumbs ending, and, most significant, a richer, wiser Bernie Gunther.

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Philip Kerr is the author of many novels, but perhaps most important are the five featuring Bernie GuntherA Quiet Flame,The One from the Other, and the Berlin Noir trilogy (March Violets,The Pale Criminal, and A German Requiem). He lives in London and Cornwall, England, with his family.

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• Verlag: Putnam
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0399156151
• ISBN 13: 9780399156151
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 437