A German Requiem: A Bernie Gunther Novel -- Philip Kerr

<b>Post-World War 2, Bernie Gunther investigates the murder of an American Nazi-hunter amongst the ruins of the Third Reich in this riveting thriller in Philip Kerr's bestselling historical mystery series.</b> <p/><i>Vienna, 1947</i>. Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Bernie is in Vienna, trying to clear an old friend and ex-Kripo colleague of the murder of an American officer. Amid decaying imperial splendor Bernie traces concentric circles of evil that lead him to a former head of the Gestapo and to a legacy that makes the atrocities of the war seem lily-white in comparison...<br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Kerr<br><b>Publisher:</b> G.P. Putnam's Sons<br><b>Published:</b> 09/01/2006<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.60lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780142004029<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Philip Kerr</b> was the<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of the acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, three of which--<i>Field Gray</i>, <i>The Lady from Zagreb</i>, and <i>Prussian Blue</i>--were finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr also won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. Just before his death in