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Dans la grande tradition des aventures de Bernie Gunther, l'avant dernier titre du regretté Philip Kerr.

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Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a long string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on. Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a ship that has sunk, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an avenging arson attack. Then the claimant is found dead, shot through both eyes. It's a win for Bernie's employers at least: no one to pay out to even if the claim is genuine. But who is behind the murder, and why? Strong-armed into helping the Greek police with their investigation, Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe seems ready to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some unpleasant changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations ndash; a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. The discovery of two bodies ndash; one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer ndash; involves Bernie in the lives of two hotel guests. One is a beautiful left-wing journalist intent on persuading America to boycott the Berlin Olympiad; the other is a German-Jewish gangster who plans to use the Olympics to enrich himself and the Chicago mob. As events unfold, Bernie uncovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are prepared to spend to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolution Cuba, the country to which Bernie flees from Argentina at the end of A Quiet Flame.

As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie Gunther is caught between violently opposing factions. Kerr´s two most recent Gunther novels were shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award.

It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wanted the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany

New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr brings Bernie Gunther—now hiding out on the French Riviera—face to face with an old and dangerous enemy. Cornered and with his cover blown, Gunther finds himself back in a cat-and-mouse game that, even a decade after Germany's defeat, continues to shadow his life. Forced to make a run for it before the French surete arrest him for murder or the GDR's Stasi succeed in killing him, Gunther heads for Berlin, hoping there are still a few old friends left who can help.

Été 1943. Joseph Goebbels, ministre chargé de la propagande, demande a Bernie Gunther de retrouver la splendide Dalia Dresner, étoile montante du cinéma allemand en fuite a Zurich. Le détective ne peut refuser. Très vite, cette mission, a priori aussi engageante que l'objet de la recherche, prend un tour bien sinistre. Le père de la belle est un Croate antisémite de la première heure, sadique notoire, qui dirige un camp de concentration, tristement célèbre, de la région. Au même moment, la police suisse exige que Gunther fasse la lumière sur une vieille affaire qui risque de compromettre des proches de Hitler...On tremble, on rit, on doute, emporté sans ménagement dans un dédale de péripéties où l'humour côtoie la tragédie. Yetty Hagendorf, Historia.

It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, Bernie was summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wants the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany.

Gil Martins est un agent du FBI qui lutte contre le terrorisme depuis Houston, Texas. Il est le témoin quotidien d'actes de violence perpétrés par des extrémistes de toutes sortes. Autrefois croyant, la réalité cruelle de son travail le porte a remettre en question l'existence de Dieu, ce qui provoque de fortes tensions avec sa femme, Ruth.Lorsque plusieurs personnalités athées dont un professeur de biologie, un obstétricien et un journaliste sont victimes d'attentats aussi étranges qu inexpliqués, Martins lance une enquête malgré le scepticisme de ses supérieurs. Ses recherches l'amènent a l'Église Izraël, où une jeune membre de sa congrégation, terrifiée, est convaincue que les victimes ont été tuées par leurs prières. Martins doute de sa santé mentale mais quand cette dernière est retrouvée morte a son tour, il découvre chez elle une liste de noms ; une liste de toutes les victimes jusque-la... et bien d'autres encore.Déterminé a arrêter cette barbarie, Gil Martins s'approche de la source des prières et semble devenir lui-même la cible d'un Dieu vengeur. Sa seule planche de salut sera de faire pénitence...

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, au milieu des années 1950. Bernie Gunther, ancien détective, est devenu concierge du Grand-Hôtel sous une identité d'emprunt. Il rencontre Somerset Maugham, qui lui demande son aide. L'écrivain est victime d'un maître chanteur qui détient des photos compromettantes où il figure en compagnie d'Anthony Blunt et de Guy Burgess, deux des traîtres de la bande de Cambridge.

The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Prague Fatale" and "Field Gray" is "in a league with John le Carre" ("The Washington Post") Berlin, March 1943. A month has passed since Stalingrad and morale is low. Then Berlin learns of a Red massacre of Polish troops near Smolensk. In a rare instance of agreement, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched. In Smolensk, Prussian aristocrats look down at the wise-cracking Berlin bull. But Bernie doesn't care about fitting in. He only wants to uncover the identity of a savage killer--before becoming a victim himself.

1954. Alors qu'il tente de fuir Cuba en bateau, Bernie Gunther est arrêté par la CIA et transféré à la prison de Landsberg à Berlin. La guerre froide fait rage et les Américains, qui ont besoin d

Gil Martins, an agent with the FBIs Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, confronts the violence generated by extremism within our nations borders every day. He sees hatred and destruction wrought by every kind of ism there is, and the zealots who kill in their names. Until now, he has always been a part of the solutionhowever imperfecta part of justice. But when Gil discovers he played a key role in wrongly condemning an innocent man to death row, it shakes his faithin the system, in himself, and in Goddeeply. It even estranges him from his wife and son. Desperate, Gil offers up a prayer. To know God is there, not through a sign or physical demonstration but through the strength to cope with his ever-growing, ever-creeping doubts.His problems become more than personal as things heat up in Houston. A serial killer terrorizing the morally righteous turns out to have religious motivations, upping the case from homicide to domestic terrorism. A number of prominent secular icons die or are grievously injured abruptly and under suspicious circumstances, the latest of which is a New Atheist writer whos fallen into an inexplicable coma. Left and right, it seems Gil cant escape the power of God and murder.As Gil investigates both cases, he realizes that there may be a connectionanswering his prayers in a most terrifying way.

Dans la Russie post-soviétique, le narrateur est envoyé auprès du meilleur spécialiste de la lutte contre la mafia, le colonel Grouchko. Dès son

1954. Alors que Bernie Gunther tente de fuir Cuba en bateau accompagné d'une sulfureuse chica, il est arrêté par la CIA et enfermé à New York puis au Landsberg à Berlin. C'est que nous sommes en pleine Guerre froide. L'Oncle Sam place et bouge ses pions en Europe, cherche des informations sur l'Allemagne de l'Est et sur les Russes. Quel rapport avec Gunther ? Sa liberté dépendra des informations qu'il veut bien donner sur ses anciens « camarades » de la SS, notamment Erich Mielke, personnage trouble auquel Bernie Gunther a eu maintes fois affaire pendant et après la guerre, devenu chef de la toute nouvelle Stasi. Par ailleurs, les Français cherchent eux à mettre la main sur Edgar de Boudel, un collaborateur qui se cache sous l'uniforme d'un prisonnier de guerre allemand de retour de camp en URSS. Au fil des interrogatoires, Gunther raconte : son entrée dans la SS, la traque des communistes allemands dans les camps français, ses mois passés dans les terribles camps de prisonniers russes et ses faits et gestes, guidés seulement par une farouche volonté de sauver sa peau. Vert-de-gris, le septième volet des aventures de Bernie Gunther, possède toute l'adrénaline et la vivacité d'esprit auxquelles Philip Kerr nous a habitués.

Berlin, 1934. Bernie Gunther, chassé de la Kripo, gangrenée par les nazis, en raison de ses sympathies pour la république de Weimar, s'est reconverti : il est maintenant responsable de la sécurité de l'Hôtel Adlon. Alors qu'il s'échine à effacer de sa généalogie un quart de sang juif, le patron d'une entreprise de construction est assassiné dans sa chambre après avoir passé la soirée avec un homme d'affaires américain véreux, ami de hauts dignitaires nazis. Une séduisante journaliste, chargée par le Herald Tribune d'enquêter sur la préparation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin, engage Bernie. Le sort d'un boxeur juif dont le corps a été repêché dans la Spree lui semble le bon moyen pour rendre compte du climat de démence meurtrière et de répression antisémite qui règne sur la capitale allemande. Le sixième volet des enquêtes de Bernie Gunther par Philip Kerr, l'auteur de la célèbre Trilogie berlinoise.