A German Requiem
By Philip Kerr
- Release Date: 1991-10-01
- Genre: Historical Mysteries
Description
Post-World War 2, Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of an American Nazi-hunter amongst the ruins of the Third Reich in this riveting thriller in Philip Kerr's bestselling historical mystery series.
Vienna, 1947. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Bernie is in Vienna, trying to clear an old friend and ex-Kripo colleague of the murder of an American officer. Amid decaying imperial splendor Bernie traces concentric circles of evil that lead him to a former head of the Gestapo and to a legacy that makes the atrocities of the war seem lily-white in comparison...
Reviews
Disappointed….
3By Mister CrankySuch a convoluted set of circumstances I have never before encountered in what I truly hoped would turn out to be detective fiction, as opposed to the spy cross and double cross fiction it rapidly exposed itself to be. My least favorite of the three of these I have thus far read. I am not giving up on the series, though, and the next book is already cued up.
