Philip Kerr

La lucha por la supervivencia en un mundo que vive entre la maldad y el cinismo.Cansado de su vida en Cuba, en 1954 Bernie Gunther decide abandonar la isla por mar. Sin embargo, su huida no sale como esperaba y es detenido por los servicios secretos estadounidenses, que lo trasladan a una prision alemana. Alli exigen su colaboracion para poder atrapar a un poderoso comunista de la joven Alemania Oriental: Erich Mielke.

¿Y SI LOS NAZIS HUBIERAN PODIDO DECIDIR SOBRE EL FIN DE LA GUERRA?En otoño de 1943, Hitler y los altos mandos nazis ya saben que no pueden ganar la guerra. Ha llegado el momento de encontrar la salida menos humillante al conflicto. Para ello barajan todas las opciones posibles: desde negociar con estadounidenses y sovieticos por separado hasta asesinar a Stalin, Churchill y Roosevelt, un triple magnicidio que conmocionaria el mundo y podria forzar el armisticio. La proxima conferencia que mantendran los tres grandes lideres en Teheran puede ser la ocasion ideal para asestar el golpe definitivo. A ese momento crucial se ve arrastrado Willard Mayer, un profesor de filosofia que, sin previo aviso, se ve reclutado por Roosevelt y se convierte en un peon mas de un tablero en el que se decidira un nuevo orden mundial.Philip Kerr urdio en 2005 esta magnifica novela de espias en torno a uno de los episodios clave de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en la que tambien planteo escenarios historicos alternativos.

La Guerra Fría ha estallado y Bernie Gunther está en tierra de nadie. En 1956, el exdetective Bernie Gunther vive en la Riviera francesa. Debería llevar una existencia tranquila, pero eso es algo imposible para el. El pasado de la guerra le alcanza de la mano de un antiguo oficial nazi. Ademas, ha sido invitado a Villa Mauresque por el celebre escritor William Somerset Maugham, quien esta siendo chantajeado y necesita ayuda. Puede que se trate de una cuestion personal. O puede que sea victima de la batalla que el espionaje esta librando en el corazon de Europa. Bernie Gunther es uno de los mejores antiheroes jamas creados. LEE CHILD

Con la primera novela de Philip Kerr, Violetas de marzo, también debutó su peculiar detective, Bernie Gunther, un exagente de la Kripo -la temida policía criminal del III Reich- especializado en buscar a personas desaparecidas. En su Trilogia berlinesa, Kerr combina magistralmente el genero negro con el escenario historico del auge y el hundimiento del nacionalsocialismo. Su trabajo de documentacion sobre la Alemania nazi es impresionante, y abarca desde las costumbres y la cultura hasta la historia y la politica. El Holocausto y la guerra aparecen recreados con crudeza en este peregrinaje del investigador privado por la ciudad de Berlin, el frente ruso de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Viena de la posguerra.

EN UN MUNDO CIEGO, BERNIE GUNTHER ES EL ÚNICO QUE SE ATREVE A VER Berlín, 1934. Tras abandonar el cuerpo de policía, Bernie Gunther se ha convertido en detective del glamuroso hotel Adlon. Allí se aloja una periodista estadounidense que ha llegado para investigar el creciente fervor antijudio de los nazis y la sospechosa designacion de la capital alemana como sede de los proximos Juegos Olimpicos de 1936. Entre ambos se establece una alianza para investigar un caso en el que esta implicado el crimen organizado y que apesta a corrupcion, dinero y muerte. Lo que no sabe Gunther es que las consecuencias de esta conspiracion viajaran en el tiempo y llegaran a estallar en la Cuba prerrevolucionaria de 1954. "A Bernie Gunther le vemos hacer y decir cosas inolvidables. Porque Gunther es quizas el mas chandleriano de los detectives de la narrativa actual, solo que el se mueve por la Alemania de Hitler". Lilian Neuman

Berlín-Viena, 1947. La guerra ha terminado, pero escarbando en las ruinas del esplendor imperial de Viena el veterano Bernie Gunther hace un descubrimiento al lado del cual las atrocidades cometidas en el pasado parecen obra de aficionados. A medida que avanza en su investigacion, el detective destapa una red de falsificacion susceptible de cambiar la identidad a antiguos altos cargos nazis que tratan de enmascarar sus terribles acciones durante el regimen hitleriano.

«El hecho es que resulta fácil reconocer a un hombre malvado a simple vista: tiene el mismo aspecto que ustedes o yo». Cuando Joseph Goebbels da una orden directa no se le puede decir que no. Y, para

Londres, en un futuro cercano. Los avances tecnológicos han facilitado mucho el trabajo policial, pero no han podido evitar la plaga de asesinos en serie que proliferan por doquier. Uno de los casos que mas preocupa a las autoridades es el de las sucesivas muertes de hombres potencialmente peligrosos que formaban parte de un programa estatal secreto de prevencion de delitos. La inspectora jefe Isadora Jakowicz (o Jake, como todo el mundo la conoce)aes una experta en psicologia criminal que acepta el desafio de atrapar a un hombre extremadamente inteligente con firmes convicciones filosoficas que responde al nombre de Wittgenstein.Una investigacion filosofica es uno de los techno-thrillers mas perturbadores y maliciosos que se han escrito y una de las grandes obras clasicas de Kerr.

The beautiful game just got deadly.London City is playing in Athens, and football manager Scott Manson is keeping his team on a tight leash. He needs them home in one piece for a crucial match at Silvertown Docks.But Scott didnt plan for death on the pitch. As the Greek authorities are mounting a murder investigation, Scott must find the truth and fast to get his boys home in time.

Everyone knows football is a matter of life and death.But this time, its murder.Scot Manson is the team coach for London City FC and an all-round fixer for the lads. Players love him, bosses trust him.But now the teams manager has been found dead at their home stadium.Even Scott cant smooth over murder ... but can he catch the killer before he strikes again?

The rolling strip across the bottom of the screen shouts the news: BESTSELLING NOVELIST JOHN HOUSTON'S WIFE FOUND MURDERED AT THEIR LUXURY APARTMENT IN MONACO. Houston is the richest writer in the world, a book factory publishing many bestsellers a year - so many that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a team that feeds off his talent; ghost writers, agents, publishers. So when he decides to take a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes and critical acclaim, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He owns a boat and has a pilot's licence - he could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him. First there's the police. If he's innocent, why did he flee? Then again, maybe he was set up by one of his enemies. The scenario reads like the plot of one of Houston's million-copy-selling thrillers...

A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying. Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

A chilling modern horror story in which the source of the horror is totally unexpected - and utterly terrifying. Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. Once a religious man, now his job makes him question the existence of a God who could allow the violence he sees every day. Gil is asked to investigate a series of unexplained deaths of victims known for their liberal views. When a woman tells Gil that these men have been killed by prayer, he questions her sanity. Yet the evidence mounts that there might be something in what she says, even more so when Gil finds that his own life is on the line.

If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books.And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

The beautiful game just got ugly. London City is set to play Olympiacos in Athens. With Greek fans rioting in the street, football manager Scott Manson is keeping his team on a tight leash: no drinking, no nightlife and no women. After the game, they fly home for a crucial match at Silvertown Docks. But Scott didn't plan for death on the pitch. City's star striker collapses mid-match, and now the Greek authorities are mounting a murder investigation. Scott Manson must find the truth - and fast - to get his boys home in time.

Bernie Gunther is back, in deeper trouble than ever in this new novel from the master of the historical thriller.Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself.But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.

From New York Timesbestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as the best crime novels around today. A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Ministerclose confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the Propaganda Ministers command. This time, the favor is personal. And this time, nothing is what it seems. Set down amid the killing fields of Ustashe-controlled Croatia, Bernie finds himself in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden agenda. Perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no one.

An intense psychological thriller from the "New York Times "bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series Acclaimed for his historical mysteries, Philip Kerr seamlessly shifts to a present-day setting with "Prayer." Gil Martins, an agent with the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, sees the violence wrought by extremists of all kinds. Gil has always been on the side of justice--until he learns something that shakes his faith in the system, in himself, and in God. Desperate, he prays, begging to know God is there. When a serial killer begins targeting the morally righteous at the same time that a number of secular icons come under attack, Gil realizes that his prayers are being answered in a most terrifying way.

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