If the Dead Rise Not: Bernie Gunther Thriller 6

Author(s): Philip Kerr

Crime Fiction

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer. As Bernie digs to unearth the truth, he discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its dramatic and violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba.

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Winner of CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2009.

'Kerr brilliantly evokes the edgy atmosphere of the post-war period in one of the most gripping and accomplished detective novels published so far this year' Sunday Times. 'One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction' Observer. 'The scope and breadth of Philip Kerr's historical research, and the subtle complexity of plot structure, are worthy of Le Carre. The fast-paced, crack-a-minute delivery smacks of Chandler. The comparisons are inevitable, but Kerr parries the plaudits with ease' Irish Examiner. 'The pace is cracking, the dialogue crisply Chandleresque, the characterisation refreshingly stereotype-free. Kerr's research, historical and geographical, is all but faultless' The Times. 'Kerr's period detail is utterly convincing... a sophisticated thriller that brings the war and its aftermath to life' Independent.

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh but now lives in London and in Cornwall. He is the author of five other acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels and is acknowledged as one of today's finest thriller writers. Reviewers have compared his work to that of Raymond Chandler and John le Carre.

General Fields

  • : 9781849161930
  • : Quercus
  • : Quercus
  • : May 2010
  • : 198mm X 132mm
  • : May 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Philip Kerr
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : oc2010002172
  • : 464