Philip Kerr: A German Requiem (UK 2016)

From the Publisher:
The war may be over, but the remnants of the Nazis are still causing trouble for Bernie Gunther - a hard-boiled noir thriller for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré

The third in Philip Kerr's internationally bestselling Bernie Gunther series of thrillers, available for the first time as an individual ebook.

In postwar Vienna, the term 'peace' is relative - the Americans, British and Russians govern the city in an uneasy truce, and the main difference is that now it's the Soviet secret police making people disappear rather than the Nazis. When Bernie is asked by a high-ranking Soviet official to clear an old Kripo colleague's name of the murder of an American officer, he quickly realises he's in over his head.

Bernie's ex-colleague Becker was working for a secret society of Nazi hunters, tracking down and executing war criminals who faked their own deaths to escape the noose at Nuremberg. Infiltrating the group, Bernie finds himself face to face with men he thought he'd never see again. They've cheated justice once - now Bernie must see that they don't get away a second time.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem. A Bernie Gunther Thriller. Quercus eBook, ISBN: 9781786480897 (March, 2016), 2339 KB (305 p.), £4.99.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem (UK 2015)

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'The contemporary master of the morally complex thriller' New York Observer
Detective Bernie Gunther wants out.

The bitter winter of 1947, and the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin. So when Bernie Gunther is asked to go to Vienna, where an ex-Kripo colleague, Emil Becker, faces a murder charge, he doesn't hesitate for long.

But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.

Vividly evoking the atmosphere of postwar Vienna, A German Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace and mordant wit to the tangle of guilt, suspicion and double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem. A Bernie Gunther Thriller. Penguin, ISBN: 9780241976913 (October, 2015), 313 p., £8.99.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
The disturbing climax to the Berlin Noir trilogy
Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem. Penguin Books, ISBN: 9780142004029 (August, 2006), 306 S., $16.00.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
Bernie Gunther, the private eye hero of the author's previous novels, gets involved in the murky world of Cold War intrigue. The plot concerns various ex-Nazis who save their skins by working for US Intelligence. The author also wrote "March Violets" and "The Pale Criminal".

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem. Penguin Books, ISBN: 0140139958 (September, 1992), 306 S., £4.99.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
In the bitter winter of 1947, as the Russian Zone closes around the ruined city, Berliners live on fear and dubiously earned PX goods. So when an enigmatic Russian colonel asks private eye Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long.

And Vienna is a different world: prosperous, peaceful, the gracious hostess to the Powers' proliferating bureaucracies, her buildings and consciences almost rebuilt. Not the aptest haven perhaps for a black-marketeer and war-criminal - but despite Becker's unsavoury past, Gunther is convinced that the shooting of an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit.

Gradually, Gunther discovers that Vienna is a mistress of hypocrisy, her smug façades masking the lethal duplicity of another war. Communism is the Americans' new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.

Vividly evoking the atmosphere of post-war Vienna, A German Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace and mordant wit to the tangle of guilt, suspicion and double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War.

Philip Kerr: A German Requiem. A Novel. Viking, ISBN: 0670835161 (October, 1991), 306 S., £13.99.