If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

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(Los Angeles Times).

Berlin, 1934. 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.

Havana, 1954. 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.

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and read Law at university. He stayed on to read Law and Philosophy as a postgraduate, most of this German, which was when he first became interested in German twentieth century history.

He worked first as a copywriter at a number of advertising agencies, including Saatchi & Saatchi, but spent most of his time researching an idea he'd had for a novel about a Berlin-based policeman. And following several trips to Germany - and a great deal of walking around mean streets of Berlin - his first novel, March Violets, was published in 1989 and introduced the world to the iconic tough-talking detective Bernie Gunther.

Since then he has written and published ten universally lauded Bernie Gunther novels, and is currently working on his eleventh. He has won both the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing, and the CWA Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award.

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ISBN 13	9780399156151
ISBN 10	0399156151
Titre	If the Dead Rise Not
Auteur	Philip Kerr
Série	Bernie Gunther Novels
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Marian Wood Book
Année de publication	2010-03-18
Nombre de pages	437
Prix	Short-listed for Shamus Award (Novel) 2011
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