The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4)

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Germany, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In "The One from the Other," Hitler's legacy lives on. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich. Business i...more

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Published 2008 by Quercus (first published September 7th 2006)

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Jun 03, 2011 Patrick rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: world-war-two, historical-fiction

Bernie Gunther, private investigator, is the literary heir to Philip Marlowe, and that's a good thing. While the plot in this novel feels a bit contrived, the hardboiled dialog is often fun, and after writing four novels about Bernie Gunther, Kerr knows his main man inside and out.

It's the character of Gunther that makes this Chandler-style noir worth reading. He's cynical about religion, amoral when it suits, and German to the core, but he hates Nazis. As a policeman in Berlin before and durin...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Mark O'Neill rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, crime, detective, germany, murder, ss, odessa

I was absolutely riveted to this book from beginning to end. I picked it up, expecting to only read a few pages before bed. I ended up staying awake and finishing the book all the way through in 5 hours. I just couldn't put it down, even if my life depended on it.[return][return]Bernie Gunther is kind of like 24's Jack Bauer. He's a complete nutcase but you're always cheering for him. Whenever he starts to get his revenge or bust a few heads, you'll shouting at him to hit harder! It's very satis...more

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Mar 08, 2009 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Donald Powell, for sure--maybe others?

Recommended to Mike by: Ron Rosenbaum sang Kerr's praises

I recall loving Bernie Gunther, and recommend the first three books often. (But it's been now some years since I read them. Buyer beware.) The collision of a noir vision (an endemic social corruption, a bitterly-funny protagonist bleakly trying to just get by and occasionally drawn into the moral morass) with the historical context of those early novels (pre-/WWII Nazi Germany) always seemed an outrageous high-concept stunt, leaning toward a slick exploitation, and yet damn if Kerr didn't do it...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Tom Vater rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another absolute corker from Philip Kerr. Bernie Gunther is on the prowl again, this time in post war Germany. Once again history and the forces that make the world what it is conspire against this former policeman turned private eye as he is sucked into a maelstrom of CIA conspiracies, Nazi murderers trying to escape Germany for better lives in South America (with he help of the Catholic church) and Jewish death squads who are on their trails. Gunther plays all sides, not by choice but necessit...more

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Mar 06, 2012 Darrell Reimer rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Looking at the stacks of mystery titles in the airport, a friend of mine said, “I think they’ve solved ‘em all.” I couldn’t help but think that he was right, in some visceral way; no matter how convoluted the crime, no matter how unlikely the twist, few readers will be genuinely surprised by the mystery’s solution. Mystery writers, understanding this, seem to adopt one of three approaches. First: rely on the pleasure of formula and familiarity, presenting a heroic detective doggedly searching fo...more Looking at the stacks of mystery titles in the airport, a friend of mine said, “I think they’ve solved ‘em all.” I couldn’t help but think that he was right, in some visceral way; no matter how convoluted the crime, no matter how unlikely the twist, few readers will be genuinely surprised by the mystery’s solution. Mystery writers, understanding this, seem to adopt one of three approaches. First: rely on the pleasure of formula and familiarity, presenting a heroic detective doggedly searching for the novel’s final page. Second: displace the genre’s conventions, placing the sleuth in unusual settings or situations. Third: treat the genre as literature of exhaustion, the detective’s drive for truth being no match for the problem of existence — Nick Bredie, reviewing The Manual of Detection by Jedidiah Berry.

Philip Kerr is an old hand at employing all three of these techniques, which he does with a well-oiled utility in The One From The Other. What Bredie fails to account for in his formulation of mystery writing is the most financially successful approach to the genre: exploration of a compelling personality and character. There are some series that will be successful for as long as the author is willing to contribute to them, just because a particular character has settled deeply into the public imagination. Sherlock Holmes is the first such detective that springs to mind. James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels are a contemporary example. So are Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels — and The One From The Other marks Gunther’s return to the printed page after nearly 20 years.

That’s an awfully long time for Bernie Gunther to sit in Kerr’s mental pantry, and it shows. In Kerr’s Berlin Noir Trilogy Bernie Gunther was a cunning thug whose heart still had some surprising soft spots. The social upheaval that gave rise to the Third Reich provided Kerr with ample opportunity to displace the genre’s conventions. Post-war Germany is a similarly fecund environment, but the instincts that kept Bernie alive on the Russian Front (and, earlier, Dachau) seem to be in serious decline. What surprised Bernie in the trilogy were moments when it seemed like virtue was possible. What surprises him now are a few blatantly obvious genre tropes. At one late point in The One From The Other, when Bernie sighs with relief, I slapped my forehead and said, “D’oh!” This was not the Bernie Gunther I remembered.

Of course, it could be that Gunther’s wartime experiences have blunted his formerly shrewd perceptiveness. It could also be that Kerr (and this particular reader) just need a little more time with the character. I certainly didn’t begrudge my time with this book. Just because it doesn’t soar to the heights, or plummet to the depths, of the trilogy that gave birth to the character doesn’t mean it’s not worth reading. Nor does it deter me in the least from reading Kerr’s next Gunther novel, A Quiet Flame ( .(less)

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Jan 18, 2012 Nick Sweeney rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series. Briefly, Bernie Gunther is a private detective on the mean streets of the Third Reich. There’s an interesting moral question that pops up immediately, something along the lines of: in a thoroughly corrupt place where the laws are made by an evil regime to suit its own purposes, what does a law-abiding man do, and what’s the point of being one – what’s the point of ferreting out one crime when so many are being committed by those who are supposed to...more Another in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series. Briefly, Bernie Gunther is a private detective on the mean streets of the Third Reich. There’s an interesting moral question that pops up immediately, something along the lines of: in a thoroughly corrupt place where the laws are made by an evil regime to suit its own purposes, what does a law-abiding man do, and what’s the point of being one – what’s the point of ferreting out one crime when so many are being committed by those who are supposed to uphold the law? Philip Kerr addresses this question in all of his books via Bernie, who’s an on-the-face-of-it amiable Philip Marlowe-type figure, often led deep into the darkness by cases that start out innocuously enough. This story is set in post-war Dachau, where Bernie is, somewhat improbably, setting out to run the hotel left him in a will. A visit from an American captain in the occupying forces sets off an improbable chain of events that see Bernie abused and beaten, fooled and framed, on a wild goose chase and yet himself put in the role of goose.

The Marlowe-isms are deliberate. Bernie wisecracks to the mighty and the lowly, and isn’t afraid of saying what he thinks is what. It’s a little tiresome at times, when you get an inkling of the author’s attempts to make Bernie hard-boiled, but mostly forgivable. I think people either like these books or hate them. You can forgive a lot in the things you like.

The books draw some criticism for the casual anti-Semitism in them – I mean, you’d expect some, from books set in the Third Reich, but it does seem to go over the top sometimes in the interests of rendering speech ‘naturally’ (whatever that means in the scope of a novel). There’s no doubt that PK turns out a decent thriller, though. Do I like them? This was another charity shop buy, and I must confess that I’ve yet to be grabbed enough by them to buy them new, and wonder if I’d read them if I wasn’t always finding them in charity shops. So it probably isn’t the last one I’ll read. I do like the ambitious scope of PK’s work – he certainly does his research, and isn’t afraid of taking the stories out of the Third Reich setting, with Bernie getting as far as Cuba in one of the books. As Bernie demonstrates time and again, you can take the man out of the Third Reich, but you can’t always take it out of the man.
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Nov 13, 2010 Artemis Eclectica rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ex-libris

Not another thriller I said to myself. Have read a few lately and sick and tired of them ... full of sadism and and excuses for gore ... Picked up this one resigned to being fed up and putting down for a future date when I'd weaned off my current distaste and boredom of thrillers. It took me a while to get into it, but this is different ... clever, laugh-out-loud funny, well researched, interesting. Some of it became obvious or predictable half-way through but didn't diminish the enjoyment. Chan...more

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Aug 02, 2010 Rowland Bismark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Philip Kerr began his writing-career with three impressive novels about German policeman and private investigator Bernie Gunther set around World War II. Then came the intriguing A Philosophical Investigation, but after that he went (or tried to go) commercial, with largely unfortunate and forgettable results. Turning back to Bernie Gunther is a calculated risk, but certainly the re-appearance of this character is more welcome than anything else Kerr might have turned to.

A long Prologue set in...more Philip Kerr began his writing-career with three impressive novels about German policeman and private investigator Bernie Gunther set around World War II. Then came the intriguing A Philosophical Investigation, but after that he went (or tried to go) commercial, with largely unfortunate and forgettable results. Turning back to Bernie Gunther is a calculated risk, but certainly the re-appearance of this character is more welcome than anything else Kerr might have turned to.

A long Prologue set in 1937 has Bernie travel to Palestine and Egypt with Nazis Adolf Eichmann and Herbert Hagen, strutting his usual stuff. Enjoyable enough, the reason for including episode only becomes clear near the conclusion of the book -- and, like a bit too much else in the novel, it's awfully convenient. Still, it's a good (re-)introduction to Bernie and his attitude -- especially towards the Nazis and the policies they are putting into place.

The novel proper then begins in 1949, where we find Bernie a hotel-owner in -- of all unfortunate places -- Dachau. His wife has pretty much lost her mind and is in hospital, and the business he's found himself in is not going well. The one guest who shows up is an American with a German handcuffed to his steering wheel, and who's not looking for a room.

Bernie decides to give up the hotelier life and do the one thing he's good at: he opens up shop as a P.I. in Munich. Kerr does a nice job of presenting post-war Germany, bombed out, arrogant Americans still in control, everyone -- except a privileged few -- making do as best they can in pretty miserable conditions. The cases that come Bernie's way are also pretty unpleasant, the Nazi-taint still muddying so many waters, but it gets interesting when one tall, good-looking woman, Britta Warzok, hires him to find her missing (nasty Nazi) husband Friedrich -- or, preferably, prove that he is dead. Her story is that she's an ultra-devout Catholic who wants to re-marry, and can't if her husband is still alive, and she's willing to pay Bernie a huge bonus if he can get definitive proof.

Looking for wanted Nazis who are on the run is dangerous business, as Bernie soon finds out, but in fact he's been drawn into something much bigger, the outlines of which only come into focus (for him) when he's in it up to his neck. "All clients are liars", he reminds himself after one meeting with Frau Warzok, but it turns out few of the people he deals with are exactly who they appear to be. Eventually, he does some new-found friends a favour, travelling to Vienna to help one of them out, and finds that many of the small coincidences (some of which he didn't recognise as such before) all turn out to have been part of a bigger plan, a trap in which he finds himself thoroughly ensnared.

Eventually, he finds himself on the run from pretty much everyone (except, ironically, the organisation that helps Nazis escape from Germany and Austria ...), but beside saving his own skin he's also out for vengeance (the reasons for which also increase as he digs deeper), making for even more complications and confrontations. It's all a bit too convenient, and there are quite a few too many coincidences (aside even from the ones that turn out not to have been so coincidental), but for the most part it's an entertaining and occasionally quite thrilling ride.

Kerr tries a bit too hard on occasion -- Bernie utters a few too many hard-boiled pearls of wisdom, and Kerr has an unfortunate penchant for listing street names, as if that somehow gave scenes a sense of more authenticity -- but he does get post-war Germany and Austria down pretty well, and Bernie is an agreeable enough companion for the story. Kerr plays up the moral ambiguities a bit too much, too, but the times certainly lend themselves to it, and he works most of it well enough into the novel.

Not quite plausible enough, The One from the Other is still a thoroughly enjoyable period-thriller, and the return of Bernie Gunther a very welcome one.
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Aug 18, 2009 K. M. rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: literature

Heard about this author on NPR and became interested in this strange genre of early aftermath of war Germany mystery and thriller literature. I couldn't get the more famous Berlin Noir series by the author at any local bookstores so gave this one a try.

I wanted to quit about half way through. The Gunther character is so painfully implausible.

The necessity to have the dry sarcasm in almost every exchange is what we might expect from a detective in a Law & Order episode or Han Solo, but seem...more

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Apr 25, 2009 Tim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Choosing this book was one of those pleasant instances of serendipity. I was browsing in my favourite bookshop and picked up an earlier collection by the same author. The milieu intrigued me, but I decided to try a more recent novel and selected this one. A good choice - this book is in a real sweet spot for me. Decent writing, detective/noir genre, and something new (for me at least), a post-WWII German setting.

The jacket reviews compare Kerr to Chandler, and I think Kerr is pretty consciously...more

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Aug 19, 2010 F.R. rated it 3 of 5 stars

I can remember seeing the name Phillip Kerr a lot in the Nineties, he wrote these technological thrillers which amassed a great deal of publicity, even if they didn’t seem to get huge readership. Well, it seems that Mr Kerr has dropped the technological, and is now writing thrillers set in the past – more specifically, post-war Germany.

Setting a detective story in Germany after the war is actually a really good idea, as there are lots of potential clients with great secrets which can then become...more

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Mar 11, 2013 Karen Meyers rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved Kerr's Bernie Gunther Berlin Noir trilogy--particularly the first book, March Violets--and am so glad he continued writing Bernie Gunther books. These stories are dark and noir-esque, set in Germany and Austria before, during, and after World War II. They are both melancholy and thrilling, yet also filled with moments of dark humor, mostly brought to you by hardboiled and cynical private detective, Bernie Gunther. There are gems on every page; just to prove it, I will open my book to a r...more

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Feb 07, 2013 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, thriller

The One from the Other is #4 in Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series. This was his return to Bernie after something like fifteen years and sets the tone for the post-war years of Bernie's adventures. It's 1949 and Bernie is trying to run his wife's hotel in a small town called Dachau. It's not a success and after his wife dies, Bernie returns to what he knows - detective work. In this place and time that work mostly involves looking for missing persons. Bernie is hired by an attractive woman to f...more

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Dec 01, 2010 Sam rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, historical-fiction

Picked this up free in my local Waterstones with the current Books Quarterly magazine and to be honest I wasn't expecting much. However I was very much surprised by this book. The book kicks off with a visit to Palestine by Bernie Gunther, then a Berlin cop who has been drafted into the SS (as the police and other forces were merged into either the Gestapo or the SS) where he is asked to spy on the people he's travelling with. This intro shows the complexity of politics at the time and sets the...more

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Apr 13, 2011 Melissa Acuna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The fourth Bernard Gunther novel (the first being available in one volume called Berlin Noir) takes place after WWII primarily in Munich and Vienna as Bernie Gunther reopens his private detective practice. The real adventure begins when a beautiful woman asks Gunther to determine if her husband is dead or alive--she's a Roman Catholic who would like to remarry, and the husband is an SS bad guy.

As fate would have it, the woman isn't who she claims to be and Gunther is caught up in a CIA plot to...more

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Sep 18, 2011 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, bernie-gunther

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Apr 08, 2009 New York Nick rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked this one up on a lark and really enjoyed it. The story centers around a German private detective who is living through the Nazi uprising in Berlin and subsequent war. The story begins prior to the war and our hero, Gunther, has yet to be called to arms. Gunther is an outspoken anti- Nazi, but he is forced to join Hitler's war effort or face death. Up to this point I was getting a fast talking flat foot vibe from the text. But once the story folded over to the post war the context became...more

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Oct 15, 2012 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ongoing-character

I first encountered Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther stories in a collection called "Berlin Noir," and that is still the best description of the Gunther books I can think of. Bernie Gunther is as hard boiled a detective as any character thought up by Dashiell Hammet, facing thugs, femme fatales, and creeping mysteries that reveal the underbelly of humanity. The twist is, Gunther is a German living in the World War II era, and the creeping underbelly in question generally has something to do with the...more

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May 19, 2012 Gerald Sinstadt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

Comparisons with Raymond Chandler, unlikely though they may seem, are valid. California transplanted to Bavaria in the immediate aftermath of the war. Humphrey Bogart as a private eye involved with under cover Nazis in late 1940's Germany might indeed seem neither one thing nor the other, but Philip Kerr pulls it off with this resurrection of Bernie Gunther.

The plot, as other reviewers have remarked, is dense and multi-layered; the prologue seems an unnecessarily lengthy set-up for a single elem...more

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Aug 17, 2012 George rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Haven't read any of PK's previous Gunther mysteries, but found this book hard to read. Couldn't finish it ultimately. The detective is a bitter man, and all the characters are unlikeable. You end up hating the Germans, the Americans, the Russians, the Jews, the Arabs, and everyone Gunther comes in touch with. Halfway through the book, I was still waiting for the detective work to really take off. The excessive historical references are rather contrived. One gets the impression that PK wrote a sh...more

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Jan 21, 2013 Gordon rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love these Philip Kerr novels. Having read my last one (no. 6) in the wrong order, I was slightly concerned that in some way I might have spoiled the plot of no. 4. No need to worry, it turned out. All of these books seem to have the ability to stand alone, and references in later books are sufficiently obscure not matter.

Anyway, this one begins pre-war, but is mainly set around 1950. Nazis are involved, along with people hunting Nazis, and it's difficult to spot any genuine good guys - if the...more

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Jul 02, 2010 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've read all the Bernie Gunther books and out of order. no matter, some details aside, I think that i have pieced the story together and enjoyed every page I read.

The usual labyrinthine plot, with great twist and turns. Brill hardboiled dialogue (loved Bernie's assessment of American beer as 'fortified mineral water'!!!), a femme fatale, a mass of amorality and immorality for our own (compromised) hero to navigate. You know it's not going to go well when it opens in a litle Bavarian town called...more

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Apr 28, 2013 Dave rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller

I like Kerr's writing style. It's very conversational and believable -the characters feel right for the setting and all of the historical pieces of the period seem to be captured correctly. Kerr is very patient with the plot and character development, and after the first quarter I really want something to happen and I want to stop asking "what is the plot?" or "where is the story?". During the character and plot development phase, the primary character, Bernie Gunther, drifts from scene to scene...more

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Apr 11, 2013 Maria rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Het was het eerste boek wat ik over Bernie Gunther las en in het begin wist ik het niet zo met het verhaal maar het ging me gaandeweg steeds meer boeien.

Ik dacht eigenlijk gewoon even een thriller te lezen maar het is veel meer dan dat. ’t Naoorlogse Duitsland met nog vrij rondlopende nazi’s op zoek naar een ontsnappingsmogelijkheid via het Kameraadschap, is de achtergrond van een spannend verhaal. Een verhaal over persoonsverwisseling, een verbijsterende rol van de Rooms-Katholieke kerk, zeer...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Toni Osborne rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Book 4 in the Bernie Gunther series

The novel follows the “Berlin Noir Trilogy”, with a detective story set in post war Germany. It contains a wealth of historical details spun into a complex plot. It covers the reconstruction period of Germany and its new threat, the rapid growth of communism.

The story starts with a prologue set part in Berlin and part in Palestine in the late 30’s. Gunther is sent to Palestine with two mandates, one to facilitate a dealing that would allow a Jewish businessman...more Book 4 in the Bernie Gunther series

The novel follows the “Berlin Noir Trilogy”, with a detective story set in post war Germany. It contains a wealth of historical details spun into a complex plot. It covers the reconstruction period of Germany and its new threat, the rapid growth of communism.

The story starts with a prologue set part in Berlin and part in Palestine in the late 30’s. Gunther is sent to Palestine with two mandates, one to facilitate a dealing that would allow a Jewish businessman to flee Germany and the other to shadow Nazi intelligence officers.

After the introduction that set the tone and is an intricate part of the novel, the action moves to 1949 Germany. Gunther now a struggling hotel owner in Dachau decides to throw in the towel after he is approached and threatened by an individual with a questionable agenda… Soon after the encounter, Gunther decides to return to his former field of expertize, a P.I. with his own business in Munich and at the same time to be close to his wife who is interned at a psychiatric hospital.

Looking for missing persons can be a messy business especially in post-war Germany where Nazism still taints the air. Hunting Nazis on the run can make the task even more hazardous and adventure filled. Gunther’s experience has taught him, clients are not always forthcoming with all the details and a P.I. can easily find himself caught up in a web of spiralling disasters fighting for his own survival….

Mr. Kerr excels at making his reader’s part of the story with first person narration it sometimes feels like Gunther is communicating directly with you. He comes across as a hard boiled, wise- cracking character strongly affected by his past; a past where he has been used as a pawn by multinational plotters in devious games and exploited in political shenanigans. This novel is impeccably plotted; it captures and sheds light on some of the intriguing aspects of post-war Germany while stimulating our interest in a stressful period of history. This is a totalling enthralling story, brilliantly written.

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Jan 23, 2012 Joan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Bernie Gunther is a good German.

He also possesses a wry sense of humour, a well-honed sense of justice and a firm understanding of retribution. He is also a survivor and understands these very characteristics are what one needs to survive in World War II Germany.

Kerr does not meditate on the horrors of war, but presents them in clear, simple prose which makes them all the more horrifying.

It is always a pleasure to spend time with Bernie regardless of what is going on around him. You know he fi...more

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Mar 19, 2013 George rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed this book.
If you like Philip Marlowe you will like Bernie Gunther. Gunther has a similar laconic view of the world. In Gunther's case it is a result of surviving the second world war and of being German.
Philip Kerr writes about Bernie Gunther in such a way that he feels real. One can experience his struggles as if they were one's own. The descriptions of Germany are clear and give a real sense of the devastation wrought by the war and the difficulty the German people had in coming to t...more

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Nov 23, 2008 Arthur rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Bernie Gunther, good guy German detective, in post-war Germany. The action takes place in 1949 Munich, Vienna and the Bavarian Alps. Germany is starting to rebuild from the war. Bernie starts off inheriting a hotel in Dachau. The book never gets very far from concentration camps and Nazi atrocities.

By the standards of most crime writing, this is a pretty good book, but the writing is a little flat by comparison to the superb Berlin Noir series. The simile's are not as startling and the plot's bu...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, mystery

Bernie Gunther returns. I read the Berlin Trilogy and loved them, and was diappointed when Kerr stopped writing the series, so I'm happy to see Gunther return. While set in post-, rather than pre-war Germany, Bernie's still the hard-boiled guy with high moral standards, in spite of spending his war years fighting for the hated Nazis. Full of twists and turns, I thought this a great read. Mysteries, by their very nature, are rarely great fiction, but Kerr writes a well written, well plotted tale,...more

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Oct 06, 2010 Brad rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It is 1949 and Bernie Gunther has set up a new detective agency in Munich. Soon, he is drawn unwittingly into a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals out of the new Federal Republic of Germany. There is the usual sex and violence. And Bernie's inimitable wit is outdone only by his cynicism as he foils both his Nazi enemies and an Israeli death squad that has mistaken him for an infamous former concentration camp doctor.

Bernie Gunther fans will enjoy The One from the Other greatly. It is a worthy a...more

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