Prussian Blue (Bernie Gunther, #12)

by Philip Kerr

witnesses on the terrace when Dr. Flex was shot, it will help me if I can put some faces to the

Gestapo—were using the French police to do their dirty work struck me as history repeating itself in the Marxian

sense, which is to say, first as tragedy and then as farce.

For another, it never seemed worth a fingertip search given that most murders these days were committed by the people I was working for.

A righteous man falls down seven times, and gets up again. You persevere. That’s Torah.”

A human being isn’t much more than a soft-sided jerry can full of liquid.

Hitler said that words build bridges into unexplored regions.

‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’ only ever works with a gun in your hand.

how you could not remove so much as a grain of sand from its place without changing something in the immeasurable whole.