Metropolis
Bernie Gunther, Book 14
by Philip Kerr
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Thriller & Suspense, Mystery & Crime, and Fiction.
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Lewis Cantley
“I have read everything this author has written about the fictional Berlin policeman Bernie Gunther, struggling to survive as the Nazis take over Germany.”
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