If the Dead Rise Not -- Philip Kerr

<b>Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).<br></b> <br><i>Berlin, 1934</i>. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad... <p/> <i>Havana, 1954</i>. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life. But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days...<br><br><b>Author:</b> Philip Kerr<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Publishing Group<br><b>Published:</b> 04/05/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 464<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.67lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.65h x 5.08w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143118534<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>New York Times Book Review</i> 05/29/2011 pg. 22<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-