Philip Kerr returns to the life of his most compelling protagonist, Bernie Gunther, after 15 years. Gunther is Berlin's hardest-boiled PI, and Kerr's work has been compared to Raymond Chandler and John Le Carre. This sees Gunther deal with life in post-war Germany, and is set in 1949. 'One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction' }Observer{ *Also appeared in January Buyer's Notes Bernie Gunther, the iconoclastic private-eye, is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr's bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany in the fourth book in this internationally bestselling series
