The second in the late Philip Kerr's iconic'Berlin Noir'trilogy,The Pale Criminal sees detective Bernie Gunther return to hunt one of the most evil killers in human history.It is 1938 and Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner,Bruno Stahlecker,another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout,Bruno is killed,and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. A serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse,he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state Security Service,with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer. But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiorsAn unflinching,fast-paced thriller exploring the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture,The Pale Criminal will be loved by fans of Robert Harris and Frederick Forsythe.'For Christmas,I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels.'Sam Mendes,Guardian'Blends high-powered storytelling with a rich piece of historical re-creation'Independent'Kerr makes his star turns - Heydrich,Himmler,et al - eerily believable'The Times 'Powerful period flavour; a gruff,subversive hero; Kerr delivers the good'Literary Review'Echoes of Raymond Chandler...vivid and well-researched'Evening Standard
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241976906Number of pages: 288Weight: 202 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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Blends high-powered storytelling with a rich piece of historical re-creationKerr makes his star turns - Heydrich,Himmler,et al - eerily believablePowerful period flavour; a gruff,subversive hero; Kerr delivers the goodsEchoes of Raymond Chandler...vivid and well-researched
Philip Kerr
Since the late eighties,Philip Kerr had been redefining crime fiction with his justly-lauded Bernie Gunther sequence. The original trilogy -March Violets,The Pale CriminalandA German Requiem,available also as a stand-alone collectionBerlin Noir- is considered one of the great highpoints of crime literature. After a break of some fifteen years,Kerr resurrected Gunther for a storming sequence of novels,set before,during and after WWII,fully fleshing out this dark,conspiratorial universe into one of fiction's great story arcs. Just before he died Philip Kerr finished a fourteenth Bernie Gunther novel Metropolis,which will be published next year. Kerr also wrote a number of stand alone thrillers and children's books during a prolific career.
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