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The One from the Other

(Bernie Gunther #4)

Philip Kerr

4.15 · Rating details · 6,570 ratings · 501 reviews

A woman seeks Bernie out. Her husband has disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She just wants confirmation that he's dead. It's a simple enough job. But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple.

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

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Sep 25, 2011 Toby rated it really liked it

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After a ridiculously long break from writing the Bernie Gunther novels (15 years I think) Philip Kerr returned with possibly his best piece of Chandleresque writing to date.

Bernie is a fantastic noir gumshoe; forever down on his luck, somehow always finding himself the subject of affection of countless beautiful women, morally grey at times yet always willing to put it all on the line for the right cause. Not to mention a fantastic voice for narrating a noir story.

The hardboiled dialogue in The After a ridiculously long break from writing the Bernie Gunther novels (15 years I think) Philip Kerr returned with possibly his best piece of Chandleresque writing to date.

Bernie is a fantastic noir gumshoe; forever down on his luck, somehow always finding himself the subject of affection of countless beautiful women, morally grey at times yet always willing to put it all on the line for the right cause. Not to mention a fantastic voice for narrating a noir story.

The hardboiled dialogue in The One From The Other was so good at times that I caught myself laughing out loud at the big brass set of balls found on our hero, the constant disparaging descriptions of the conquering Americans are a delight to behold and some of the tongue-in-cheek similies are simply brilliant. However the repetitive reference to something being the size of a bowling alley got a little old as did a couple of others (perhaps somebody should buy him an Oxford Big Book of Similies for Christmas?)

The plot took a little while to get going, the 30 plus page prologue didn't help things, epecially as it was essentialy an unnecessary historical addition that doesn't further the plot. This being said I actually enjoyed it as a great Bernie Gunther short story of sorts. More of these collected together and you'd have a damned good book for fanboys like me (anybody know his agent?) Once it starts the pace is relentless, filled with shocking historically accurate facts about post-war Germany and some of the unsavoury behaviour practiced by all sides of the political spectrum. Bernie finds himself in great danger, like all hardboiled heroes should, with at least one eye-wateringly awful sequence ending in a trip to the hospital.

I have one other major gripe with the book; the obvious foreshadowing of future plot points that as a reader you can see coming a mile away just from Gunthers narration yet he was too stupid and too slow to realise until it was too late. It may be that in the previous three books I was too stupid and too slow to pick up on the foreshadowing of events but I would be willing to bet that it is actually the lazier method of storytelling this time round that is responsible.

Very nearly a 5 star book but just missing out. I'm very excited for the 5th book though. ...more

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Apr 11, 2016 Mark rated it really liked it

Recommends it for: fans of a different view on Post WWII Germanu and history.

Shelves: historical-fiction, bernie-gunter, wwii, 2016

The fourth Bernie Gunther adventure takes place a mere 15 years after the first three novels Kerr wrote. Those three novels of called Berlin Noir trilogy while decent enough are show a less likable Bernie Gunther than this new phase 2 Bernie Gunther whose exploits shortly after the war show a post WWII Germany that does not quite fit the general accepted truths. Kerr does quite a good job in showing that with the second great war fone with the good guys did not necessarily did win the war. We ha The fourth Bernie Gunther adventure takes place a mere 15 years after the first three novels Kerr wrote. Those three novels of called Berlin Noir trilogy while decent enough are show a less likable Bernie Gunther than this new phase 2 Bernie Gunther whose exploits shortly after the war show a post WWII Germany that does not quite fit the general accepted truths. Kerr does quite a good job in showing that with the second great war fone with the good guys did not necessarily did win the war. We have learned already about the braindrain post World war 2 and how both the Allied forces and the Russian raced for the important scientists. How many of us knew that the Germans did fairly quickly wanted to leave the mess that was their lost war behind them and resume business as usual with a notion that preferable everything would be forgotten.

Bernie lives in Dachau at the beginning of this story and runs a hotel. When his wife dies he picks up an activity he is better suited for,namely being a private detective in Munich. Unavoidable he gets some business that gets him into trouble with the Brotherhood of former Nazi thugs. He ends up in hospital. From there he is found into a town called Garmish Partenkirche (well known for the annual new Year ski jumping tournament) were he gets some companionship which then leads him into Vienna and were he gets hunted as a war criminal. At the end of the book he is some illusions poorer and has a digit less.

The surprising issue in this book is how post WWII Germany was hurrying to forget their recent shameful past and that the Allies did not mind. I never knew about these Jewish Dead-squads and was actually not that surprised they did exist. The medical experiments on prisoners has not stopped after this last great war but it was the Nazi's who did take this to the next level. And even then the allies (the good guys) were still most interested in its results.

A great thriller that does also shows a darker version of history through the eyes of a former German Policeman who never was a Nazi but too good at his job to not get involved into terrible situations. This Noirish tale of post WWII Germany & Vienna is well written and easy to read. Well worth your time. And an eye-opener if you like the adventure stories like the ones Alistair Maclean did write in his day. War was never clean.

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Nov 12, 2012 David Lowther rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I read The One from the Other a few years ago but the second reading was in response to the very sad news that the very great Philip Kerr died at the relatively young age of 62 a couple of weeks ago.

I can't say much about the Bernie Günther novels that hasn't already been said; superbly constructed plots, sharp and witty dialogue, cynicism, great scene description and brilliant characterisation headed, of course, by Bernie himself, literature's greatest survivor.

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Jan 05, 2020 Alex Cantone rated it liked it · review of another edition

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“Giving people choice was not something Hitler was good at. We all had to do things we didn’t much care for…”

One from the Other opens with a back story of Berlin, September 1937. Gunther, a former KRIPO detective turned private investigator is retained by the SD‘s Jewish Department to accompany two of their men to Palestine, where he is to deposit a businessman’s assets in a bank and set up an account for him. The logic is simple: the enemy is England which controls the Palestine Concession, and “Giving people choice was not something Hitler was good at. We all had to do things we didn’t much care for…”

One from the Other opens with a back story of Berlin, September 1937. Gunther, a former KRIPO detective turned private investigator is retained by the SD‘s Jewish Department to accompany two of their men to Palestine, where he is to deposit a businessman’s assets in a bank and set up an account for him. The logic is simple: the enemy is England which controls the Palestine Concession, and by helping wealthy Jews to migrate the SD is creating a de facto German state. But the Gestapo gets wind of it and forces Gunther to spy on the SD men for evidence of corruption. The story becomes more tangled when, first in Palestine and then Cairo, he meets extremists on both the Jewish and Arab side.

The timeline shifts to Munich, 1949. His wife Kirsten in a sanatorium, Gunther is trying to sell his late father-in-law’s hotel at Dachau and start up his PI business again, specialising in missing / displaced persons. He is approached by an attractive woman who wishes to remarry, but being a Roman Catholic, she cannot do so without evidence of the death of her war-criminal husband, a brutal commandant at a labor camp in Poland.

But there are those who do not wish to be found, aligned with a network that will do everything in their power to protect them. Bernie is advised against getting involved by Korsch (a former detective in The Pale Criminal) and now a journalist; ditto by a Roman Catholic priest (whose political views lie some way to the right of Genghis Khan). Inevitably he ignores this sound advice and gets badly beaten up and his little finger docked by some vicious heavies.

After that it became dour and convoluted. Bernie in hospital. Bernie recuperating at a villa in the Bavarian Alps. Nazi doctors who were war criminals. Throw in the CIA. Bernie returning to Vienna, the partitioned city he described in detail in A German Requiem, two murdered women with Bernie to take the fall. One of its few lighter moments is when he seeks refuge in a Benedictine monastery, famous for its beer.

“If you ask me, the whole Reformation can be blamed on strong beer,” he opined. “Wine is a perfect Catholic drink. It makes people sleepy and complicit. Beer just makes them argumentative. And look at the countries that drink a lot of beer. They’re mainly Protestant. And the countries where they drink a lot of wine? Roman Catholic.”
- “What about the Russians? I asked. “They drink vodka.”
- “That’s a drink to help you find oblivion,” said Father Bandolini. “Nothing to do with God at all.”

Most annoying is Bernie’s cynical commentary throughout, like a cheap Raymond Chandler novel, and, predictably, it turns full circle to the meeting in Palestine in September 1937. This book is the fourth in the Bernie Gunter series, (the sixth I have read) and I recommend that the first three titles (published under Berlin Noir March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem By Kerr, Philip Paperback) are read prior to this one, which I have enjoyed the least. ...more

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Jun 03, 2011 Patrick O'Hannigan rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, world-war-two

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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May 05, 2016 Judith Johnson rated it it was amazing

I have an abiding interest in 19th/20th Century German culture and history, and have visited Berlin several times, so I really love Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther books, though I had to have a break after reading the first three. The brutality was too much. But having recently read the first of Richard Evans's magnificent books on the Third Reich, which took the reader up to Hitler's coming to power in 1933, it struck me that Kerr had perfectly captured those turbulent times and the kind of crimin ...more

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Jul 25, 2013 Christopher Smith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

All conflicts have at least two sides. Most have more than two and some have elements that are not as clear, are unexpressed, disguised, even unknown to holders and/or observers. Philip Kerr’s “The One From The Other” forces readers who may have long-held beliefs that WWII was fought for clear right vs. wrong reasons and that actions by forces on either side were also clearly right or wrong, to re-examine that belief. That is not to say that readers will or even should reverse their belief in th ...more

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Dec 14, 2017 Bogdan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, crime, detectives

I like the style of the author, the adventures of the ex german police officer Gunther and all the after the war German setting.
Yeah, the plot it`s quite predictable, Bernie looks like a fool sometimes, but for me, hasn`t spoiled the entertainment from this one. ...more

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Apr 12, 2020 Magdelanye rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: culture-conflict, social-commentary, ethics, existential-crises, displacement, historical-fiction, social-history, war-torn, documentary-fiction

No one thought for a moment that our living space could only be created if someone else died first. p1

They say that insanity is merely the ability to see into the future. And if we knew now what we'll know then, it would probably be enough to make any of us scream. In life, the trick is all about keeping the two separate for as long as possible. p53

Fifteen years after the conclusion of his Berlin Noir series, PK has brought back the iconoclastic private investigator Bernard Gunther, who, in 1949 ...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Lance Charnes rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: readers who'd like Philip Marlowe better with a German accent

Shelves: fiction-mystery-detective, reviewed

Perhaps the only thing more noir than pre-war Nazi Germany is post-war Germany at the dawn of the Cold War. So it makes sense that ex-cop, ex-SS-member, and full-time cynic Bernie Gunther makes his return in this dark and cynical tale of war criminals, CIA agents, deception, murder, and historical whitewashing.

Gunther, a private investigator, has moved to the barely de-Nazified Munich of 1949 to scratch out a living chasing down missing people. There are still millions of vanished people four ye Perhaps the only thing more noir than pre-war Nazi Germany is post-war Germany at the dawn of the Cold War. So it makes sense that ex-cop, ex-SS-member, and full-time cynic Bernie Gunther makes his return in this dark and cynical tale of war criminals, CIA agents, deception, murder, and historical whitewashing.

Gunther, a private investigator, has moved to the barely de-Nazified Munich of 1949 to scratch out a living chasing down missing people. There are still millions of vanished people four years after the end of WWII -- some gone through circumstance, others by plan. When a pretty young frau enlists Gunther to make sure her Nazi-war-criminal husband is really dead, he thinks little of it. Of course, he discovers that nothing is as it seems.

The strengths that Kerr demonstrated in Berlin Noir are repeated here: his Furstian command of setting, the sights and sounds of a city chaotically rebuilding, the streetcar system, the newspapers, the flash and sizzle of the occupying Americans, the veiled brooding of the defeated Germans. Gunther inhabits Munich in the same way he inhabited Berlin, with knowing references to the districts and landmarks, the streets and bars and brothels. It's all atmosphere all the time. The wised-up dialog remains as crisp as a new Deutschmark, full of period slang and sounding just so coming out of 1949 mouths. It also captures the coded language once used to slip past the Nazis and now turned against the occupiers. The plot ably keeps the twists and turns coming (though some aren't as opaque as the author likely intended).

In this story, Gunther is even more obviously the German edition of Marlowe. His world-weariness and drollery is interchangeable with Chandler's smart-assed, cynical private dick; if you switched characters in midstream, it might be a while before the readers notice. He insists on provoking people who can do him serious harm and ends up paying the price for it over and over, but it's hard to sympathize. It's once again a lost opportunity to show us how a P.I. might operate in a society that isn't our own and in circumstances far different from those of 1940s Los Angeles.

In my review of Berlin Noir, I wished that Gunther would end up with a Nazi true-believer as a client so he'd have to deal with someone whose thinking was alien to him. I got my wish, in spades: Gunther is virtually wallowing in war criminals in this story. Don't look for a good or admirable character here because there aren't any, not even our hero. When they die (as many do, and that's not a spoiler), we feel relief more than regret or outrage. We end up in Gunther's corner mostly because he's the least-bad figure in the story, not because we especially admire him or hope he wins.

If you come to this book after the Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem omnibus, you already know what you'll get, plus some. If you don't, go back to Berlin Noir and start from there; characters and events from the previous three novels come back to haunt Our Antihero in this one, just as the past keeps coming back to haunt Kerr's Germany.

The One from the Other doubles down on the darkness and cynicism of the previous three installments, to its detriment. Its world is so black, corrupt and hopeless that it leaves the reader with hardly anyone to root for or much satisfaction in its resolution. For the story alone I'd give it 3.5 stars, but the virtuosity of the prose hoists it up half a star.
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Aug 16, 2010 F.R. rated it liked it

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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Aug 03, 2014 Lawyer rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Those who love Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett

Recommended to Lawyer by: Goodreads Group Pulp Fiction who introduced me to Bernie Gunther in The Berlin Noir Trilogy

Shelves: hard-boiled-detective, naziism, 1930s, detective, 20th-century, 2014, 1940s, world-war-two, philip-kerr, war-criminals

The One From the Other: Everybody is out to Get Bernie Gunther

Lullaby and good night, etc. etc. One of these days I'm gonna finish this review.

The KitKat Club is closed. Gute Nacht meine Damen und Herren. Schlafen Sie gut. Süße Träume.

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Apr 25, 2017 Ingrid rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A good balance between fact and fiction. I enjoyed it.

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Mar 03, 2018 Neal Wilson rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Historical fiction mysteries don't get much better than this. Provides a quick colorful education into the vagaries of Nazi Germany during that time, as well. This is a book you look forward to resuming, as soon as you put it down for a break.

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Aug 18, 2009 hoffnarr rated it it was ok · 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 seemed s ...more

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Aug 12, 2019 Tom Mc Kenna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

4.5 Stars rounded up to 5 Stars.

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Jul 01, 2020 Scott Head rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Outstanding story woven in and out of real historical figures and happenings, a real illuminating look at the post-war scramble to gather up useful SS men and Nazis by the allies, while trying the less useful as war criminals. Detective Bernie Gunther, himself an ex-SS man, though unwillingly, is tossed through misery as he sets up shop as a private detective once again. Meeting various shady types and wholesome friends, he soon discovers who are the shady ones, and who are not. A great look int ...more

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Jul 15, 2018 Mike Worley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

4 Stars, this is my first Kerr novel I have read. Kerr's writing and subject matter, in my opinion, is similar to Joseph Kanon. This is a good thing. I am looking forward to reading more Kerr.

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Jan 23, 2009 Bibliophile rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, 2009, ww2, germany, zentropa, own, mystery-and-suspense, reread, bernie-gunther

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Set in post-World War II Germany, The One from the Other brings Bernie Gunther, protagonist of Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” novels, back for another adventure. Bernie is a former Berlin cop (“a bull from the Alex”) who became a PI and then joined the SS (because the Kriminalpolizei was amalgamated into that organization) but retained a conscience that wouldn’t let him participate in mass killings, so he ended up serving on the front-lines, being captured by the Russians, released and finally arri Set in post-World War II Germany, The One from the Other brings Bernie Gunther, protagonist of Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” novels, back for another adventure. Bernie is a former Berlin cop (“a bull from the Alex”) who became a PI and then joined the SS (because the Kriminalpolizei was amalgamated into that organization) but retained a conscience that wouldn’t let him participate in mass killings, so he ended up serving on the front-lines, being captured by the Russians, released and finally arriving back in Germany. Whew! Got all that? Good, because that’s just the beginning.

The One from the Other opens with a flashback to 1937, in which Gunther accompanies two SD agents – one of them Adolf Eichmann – on a trip to British Palestine during the course of which Hajj Amin, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gives Eichmann the idea for the Final Solution.

Then we flash forward to Munich in 1949, where Bernie’s wife mysteriously dies, and he’s hired by another woman to prove that her husband is dead, which leads to a complicated mystery plot involving the CIA, Nazi medical experimentation, the Vatican’s complicity in hiding war criminals, and opportunities for angst and wise-cracking galore. It’s an enjoyable – though sometimes rather preposterous – read, but I had a couple of problems with the novel as a whole:

First of all, Bernie Gunther is a bit of an enigma to me – he seems to be supernaturally au courant on the state of pop culture in America, but at the same time, despite being apparently disgusted by the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews, he’s incredibly gullible when it comes to his former comrades from the SS. Um, you meet two doctors, both from the SS, who are doing medical experiments, and supposedly one of them is being nursed by a Jewish concentration camp survivor, and NOTHING seems suspicious to you at all? Some kind of a cop!!

Plus, his wisecracking rings a little false to me in this setting, frankly. I guess Kerr is telling us that Bernie’s still full of that trademark Berliner Schnauze, but for me, it was a little too much. (Though I do like Kerr’s ability to weave in German slang words into the English like “spinners” and “bulls” and make it sound quite natural.)

Secondly, I find the entire idea that Eichmann only came up with his plans for the mass murder of European Jewry because of a meeting with the Grand Mufti equally preposterous. I mean, yes, Hajj Amin was a murderous, anti-Semitic nutball, but there are reams of research devoted to the origins of the Final Solution, and most of those works give that (dubious) credit where it’s due: to the ideological underpinnings of Nazism and to the willingness of Germans from Himmler on down, to treat their neighbors, friends and subjects like so many insects to be crushed out of existence. They didn’t need a crazy Arab guy to give them ideas.
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Apr 10, 2018 Don rated it liked it · review of another edition

This is a relatively early entry in this series and, in my opinion, not one of the stronger ones I've read. Set in around 1948-9, it does provide an interesting view of post-war Germany and Austria, the Allied occupation and the effort to hide and facilitate the escape of Nazis.

Part of my problem with the book is that Kerr has written it in the classic (and somewhat tired) style of the hard-boiled detective story, with a lot of sarcastic dialogue and comments from Gunther. I don't recall that be ...more

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Aug 06, 2018 Jim Mullin rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is the fourth book read in my quest to read the entire Bernie Gunther series by Phillip Kerr. To date it is the best and meets my expectations to ascertain why the series has been so widely acclaimed. Once again Kerr’s explanation of German Holocaust history during and after WW2 is immensely interesting and better presented than most history books. In this book the plot is engrossing and compelling.

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Jun 22, 2018 Margaret rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Tough, dark historical mystery fiction set in WWII with Nazis all around. Bernie is a great character and I look forward to more in this series.

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Jun 05, 2019 Renay Russell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Berlin noir is one of my favourite genres of books so This was right up my alley. This is the only book I’ve read in the trilogy so I need to locate the others!

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Nov 08, 2016 Nigeyb rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I recently read the original Bernie Günther Berlin Trilogy ('March Violets’/'The Pale Criminal’/‘A German Requiem’) and concluded that Philip Kerr had saved the best until last, the third book in the trilogy - 'A German Requiem' - is superb.

Unlike Bernie Günther fans who read the books on publication, I didn't have to wait 15 years to read number four. I just carried on the next day. So far, with the Bernie Günther series I conclude reading them in quick succession is a good approach, not only h ...more

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Jul 23, 2017 Speesh rated it it was amazing

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The first three in the series were good. This is better. It's a really good look at one man, an articulate, cynical, realistic man, and his navigation of the perils the aftermath of the second world war presented to Germans, especially those who had, willingly or not, been part of the Nazi Party. Gunther is cynical, but keeps that down and the wise-cracks to a bearable minimum here. Those he does use, are born from desperation at the situation his leaders have left the ordinary person in the str ...more

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Nov 14, 2019 Wendy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The One from the Other by Philip Kerr continues our acquaintance with Bernie Gunther. WWII is over and he and his wife are trying to make a go of an inherited hotel when his wife suffers some issues and is admitted to a mental hospital. Bernie visits her and sees that she looks as though the hospital has a flea problem. She's covered in bites. Within days she's dead. The doctor suggests she died from the flu explaining that patients are always more susceptible to contagious diseases. Bernie thin ...more

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Jun 14, 2018 A Man Called Ove rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5/5 A blend of historical fiction and crime fiction
Setting and characters - 4/5
Crime story - 3/5
The author’s March Violets was a superb hardboiled detective fiction (5/5) with the added bonus of a great setting in Nazi Germany. I went for this one expecting the same, but wonder if this would be more historical fiction ?
Think the crime story never picks up pace, never gets u interested, is too fragmented and while the explanation is not too implausible, its not entirely convincing either. May ...more

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Jul 20, 2018 Mr. Gottshalk rated it really liked it · review of another edition

As a history major, I really appreciate all the accurate research and spot-on, accurate writing by Philip Kerr. He’s brilliant at this historical noir fiction, and has a sassy, intelligent detective named Bernie Gunther snooping around the rubble and dark corners of Germany and Austria after WWII. There were so many clever ins and outs in this mystery, which, on its surface, was supposed to be about finding out if a horrible concentration camp officer is alive or dead, and then this one spins ou ...more

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Jun 05, 2019 Hpnyknits rated it really liked it · review of another edition

3.5 rounded to 4. The historical background was fascinating and highlighted the atrocities of the Nazis. Very noir that nobody was who they said they were, and everybody double crossed everybody else- but the ultimate goal- survival- was always at the forefront of everything. Historically- giving the mufti Haj Amin al-Hussein the credit for the idea of the Final Solution of the Jews has been proven to be wrong.

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Jan 28, 2018 Harry Heitman rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Philip Kerr's indefatigable detective Bernie Gunther plows on in the aftermath of World War II.
Great story telling, interesting characters and an attention to detail that is extraordinary.

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