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 sneak two Nazi doctors out of Germany so that they can continue their experiments to find a vaccine for malaria.

Bernie is still as strong a central character as in the previous novels, but the novel is overly long. 75% of the way through I had to force myself to finish. I'm glad I did as the plot took a few unexpected twists, but this is no where near the brilliance of the first three books.