false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1238381561m/3056685.jpg 3056685 12 Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history. A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the Per?n government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker--has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores--state-licensed murderers and torturers--so why couldn't a serial killer be among them? But Argentina, just like Germany, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind half a world away. In this new postwar world, Bernie Gunther is a man without a name or a country, but still in full possession of his conscience. He is "the right kind of hero for his time--and ours." 3087589 book 5 2 2008 A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Mystery total:97|5:17|4:56|3:19|2:5|1:0| 97 376 181 31 5 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 15:05:17 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 15:06:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 17:00:46 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:36:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 03:38:09 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 13:05:57 -0700 2009
The'Berlin Noir' trilogy was my introduction to Bernie, a smart, sympathetic detective in Berlin's pre...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 30 14:00:10 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 13:59:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 19:00:41 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 05:58:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jan 23 07:49:17 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 23 17:30:39 -0700 2009 A Quiet Flame, the sequel to The One from the Ohter finds hard-boiled German detective Bernie Gunther in postwar Argentina, where he's fled because of a case of mistaken identity. He's asked to investigate the murder of a young girl which appears suspiciously similar to a killing that Bernie once i...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Sep 25 06:04:39 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 06:07:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 03:35:45 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:04:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:29:37 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 13:29:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Nov 28 13:32:08 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 03:53:46 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 13:32:08 -0800 2008 Raymond Chandler-esque prose. It was tough, hard boiled, and super interesting becaues of the peak behind the scenes setting of Nazi era Germany. But this latest one... I don't know what to say....more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 02 19:20:17 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 19:20:17 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jun 05 09:33:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 09:35:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 20:12:07 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 20:14:49 -0700 2009 and Berlin 1939. Historical figures such as the PErons
appear, Bernie Gunther has to solve a perplexing crime
in BA with links to Berlin where he formerly served in the
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