If the Dead Rise Not: Incomparable World War Two thriller starring Bernie Gunther

ISBN-13: 9781849161930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str.

Philip Kerr

Opis

Bernie Gunther, forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - a businessman and a Jewish boxer, and Bernie is drawn into the lives of various hotel guests.

Recenzje

'Kerr's period detail is utterly convincing... a sophisticated thriller that brings the war and its aftermath to life' Independent. Independent

O autorze

Philip Kerr has written over thirty books of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. The sixth book in the series, If the Dead Rise Not, won the CWA Historical Dagger. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers, The Children of the Lamp. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.