The Pale Criminal (37 page)

Ex-policeman Bernie Gunther thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin — until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Even after the war, amid the decayed, imperial splendor of Vienna, Bernie uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison. Philip Kerr’s taut, gripping Berlin series is noir storytelling at its best, nothing short of spellbinding.

“Dark, complex, and relentlessly witty — a nearly perfect marriage of threatening background and twisted plot to a German Philip Marlowe.”

—
Kirkus Reviews
(starred)

“Stylishly written, unbelievably well-researched, satisfyingly complex, suspenseful, and witty throughout.”

—
The Flint Journal
ISBN 0-14-200415-4

Available from Penguin in 2006:
The third book in Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir Trilogy

“Gritty, chilling, and convincing ... Bernie Gunther is a tough and resourceful detective.”

—
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
ISBN 0-14-200402-2

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