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Sèrie: Bernie Gunther (1956 & 1939⎪12)

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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2...

The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie's old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice??and he's not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they've both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler??former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch??Bernie bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked together...
Obersalzberg, Germany, 1939: A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Bavaria. Bernie and Korsch have one week to find the killer before the leader of the Third Reich arrives to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Bernie knows it would mean disaster if Hitler discovers a shocking murder has been committed on the terrace of his own home. But Obersalzberg is also home to an elite Nazi community, meaning an even bigger disaster for Bernie if his investigation takes aim at one of the party's higher-ups...
1939 and 1956: two different eras about to converge in an explosion Bernie Gunther will neve
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Prussian Blue de Philip Kerr (2017)

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This book, like many in the series, covers two time periods, initially 1956 but then 1939 and features a character who reappears in 1956 as a Stasi member. In 1956 Bernie is living in the south of France and has been caught by a former Nazi cop now living in East Germany and a member of the Stasi. Bernie narrowly Escapes their clutches and goes on the run. Meanwhile, back in 1939, Heydrich has sent Bernie to solve an embarrassing murder in Berteschgarten, Hitler's Bavarian retreat, which is under Martin Borman's iron control. As usual, many of the characters were real people and the background detai, fantastic. ( )
  edwardsgt | Mar 4, 2024 |
I love this guy's writing, even when the plot can be a little confusing. however, this is the best one yet, with clear and concise plotting and well done suspense.
  SamMelfi | Dec 24, 2022 |
The twelfth book to feature Bernie Gunter takes up his story immediately after the previous one “The other side of silence”. In 1956, he is still working as a hotel detective on the French Riviera. Having spoilt an East German plot to throw suspicion on the MI5 Deputy Director, Roger Hollis, the East German secret service is determined to try again and at the same time to implicate Gunter. Some of the officers who worked with him in Germany before and during the Second World War, have now transferred their allegiance and threaten his future. The exciting and tense novel alternates between 1956 and Bernie’s investigation in early 1939 in Berchtesgaden of a fatal shooting at Hitler’s retreat. As in the previous novels, Kerr has a powerful way with his plotting and dialogue that moves the two parts of the story on apace and keeps you turning the pages to discover what happens next.
  camharlow2 | May 27, 2022 |
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“Prussian Blue” is the twelfth book in the “Bernie Gunther series”, yet again, it can be read as stand alone.

This book finds Bernie in the French Riviera, working on a hotel, as he receives a dinner invitation from his wife. It sounds rather strange to him, as it would be a little difficult for her to be there at the time, but he accepts the offer. When he arrives at the date, he founds himself having dinner with the head of Stasi police. It is 1956 and the Eastern Germany Police is shuffling the cards of the deck. Bernie is asked to handle a loose end of an agent, he is not so fond of. Given his integrity and honesty, he cannot commit murder, even to someone he dislikes. Therefore he is on the run, trying to escape being captured by an old partner.

The whole situation brings him memories of 17 years ago, 1939, when he was investigating a murder in Berghof, in Hitler’s country house, and actual headquarters of the chancellery and the Nazi Party, just before the invasion to Poland. It was not out of his fondness for the Nazis or Hitler that he agreed to this investigation, but rather of the selfe conservation feeling that kept him alive in the coming years.

This is a hell of a detective’s story that Kerr is up to with this novel. History is around the trenches at all time and the whole pre and post World War II atmosphere is vivid in the air of this Bavarian village. The narration is split between two eras with 17 year difference between them. It starts at 1956, with the reality of the East German Police, Stasi, leading their way around the world, committing their own crimes, just like the Gestapo. That is because, the same people that were in the police forces of Hitler’s Germany are still pulling the strings after the war. Nothing new for those who study history. It continues back in 1939, going back and forth really smoothly and not confusing the reader, as all the events from one era connect to those of the other.

Kerr’s narration is well known to his fans and so is Bernie’s integrity. The author tries really hard to keep his main character unchanged throughout the years and the difficult times, and he accomplishes it nonetheless. It is a remarkable job so to speak, being able to support your hero after 12 books!

It’s an atmospheric long but enjoyable read, destined to put the reader into some thought. Human nature is not far from the savage times. Given the current situation in Europe and around the world in general, where the right and fascist parties are getting strength and power, it is a reminder to us all of what has happened and what can become of people in power. Even the slightest power can make man hungry for more, can make him greedy, can make him think low of human life. Do we really want to see another Hitler dominating our world? Cause we are really not far from that… ( )
  GeorgiaKo | Dec 1, 2020 |
This review covers the following books:
Other Side Of Silence
Metropolis
Prussian Blue
Greeks Bearing Gifts

These four books concluded the Bernie Gunther series for me and sorry I am to get to the end.

If you are not a detective genre fan then stop reading now, for you may get your eyes opened!

Set in Nazi Germany, Bernie Gunther is in the classic detective mold. Hard bitten, soft spot for a swell dame, has scruples, a conscience, and a gun. Runs off at the mouth to the wrong people about things they don’t want to hear and somehow manages not to get killed. This is surprising as his employers are very high level SS.

They main villains are the Nazis and all are real characters from history. One of the nice touches is the historical footnotes at the end of the books where their real fates are listed. A surprising number of them were not tried as war criminals and died peacefully in their beds, unlike their victims.

This is a long series covering the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s right up to the 1950s. There is no glamourising anything about war or the actions of the participants in these books.

That’s the scenario, but here’s the thing. When all is said and done it is a detective novel. There is a crime, some suspects, and a detective trying to work out who did what. It’s a simple idea, there is lots of moral philosophising and some skull cracking but nothing that you cannot understand, (yes even you who look down on detective novels.)

But here’s another thing and this is where the magic comes into it. We all know the plot, and generally most of the characters, so the real skill is in the characterisation, plot structure and dialog.

Any fool can write a one-off novel based on an highly intellectual promise (he says) but try writing the same novel over and over again and yet each time making it authentic. Not any fool can do that (he says).

If you are sceptical of this, why has Sherlock Holmes endured? Look at a list of Booker Prize winners and see how many of them are household names like Lee Child, Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Ian Ranking, Agatha Christie, to name but a few, also, see how many of those Booker winners are relatively unknown now, or even only 10 years after they won their Booker. Better yet, see how many books they sold compared to the list of crime authors above, but I have no doubt that you confuse popular with prosaic.

Believe me, one day all you book snobs will get what’s coming to you, then you’ll be begging some jaded, low life, philandering, alcoholic, washed up detective to come and save you.

Well mister, if you ain’t some drop dead, gorgeous, red headed, dame then you may as well kiss your sorry, snobbish arse goodbye. And good riddance I say.
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  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
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Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2...

The French Riviera, 1956: Bernie's old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice??and he's not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they've both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler??former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch??Bernie bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked together...
Obersalzberg, Germany, 1939: A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Bavaria. Bernie and Korsch have one week to find the killer before the leader of the Third Reich arrives to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Bernie knows it would mean disaster if Hitler discovers a shocking murder has been committed on the terrace of his own home. But Obersalzberg is also home to an elite Nazi community, meaning an even bigger disaster for Bernie if his investigation takes aim at one of the party's higher-ups...
1939 and 1956: two different eras about to converge in an explosion Bernie Gunther will neve

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