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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.

From New York Timesbestselling author Philip Kerr, the much anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by The Daily Beast as the best crime novels around today.Once Id been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent. Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his past await Bernie Gunther at the French Riviera.The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies.Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer.Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release.Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.

FÚTBOL. CRIMEN. SEXO. LA SERIE DE LA CHAMPIONS El equipo de Scott Manson disputa un partido crucial de la Champions en Atenas. La derrota sería una mala noticia pero no la peor. Una de las estrellas cae fulminada sobre el cesped. ¿Un ataque al corazon o algo mas turbio?

El hecho de que el fútbol sea un juego no significa que tengas que juegar limpio. El entrenador Scott Manson necesita un nuevo puesto de trabajo, la búsqueda de un objetivo en el mundo lleno de estrellas del futbol internacional no es facil. Una nueva posicion en Shanghai resulta ser una operacion ficticia, y en Barcelona no esta contratado como director de futbol sino como detective. El jugador estrella del Barca esta desaparecido, y Scott: tiene un mes para encontrar su pista....

Tout le monde sait que le football, c'est souvent une question de vie ou de mort... Scott Manson est l'entraîneur du club de football de London City. C'est la bonne étoile de l'équip

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...

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.

"En Alemania todos habíamos cambiado despues de marzo de 1933. Como digo siempre, ¿quien no es nacionalsocialista si lo apuntan con una pistola en la cabeza?". En 1936, Alemania está completamente sometida al ferreo regimen de Hitler. Es casi imposible mantenerse apartado del nazismo omnipresente y al mismo tiempo ganarse la vida. Eso es lo que intenta Bernie Gunther, un cinico expolicia que ahora trabaja como detective privado. Su proximo trabajo en principio tiene poco que ver con la politica: un empresario le encarga resolver el doble homicidio de su hija y su marido, y tambien averiguar el paradero de un valioso collar que fue robado por el asesino. A pesar de las apariencias, el brutal crimen es algo mas que un simple robo. Y Gunther debera adentrarse en un terreno muy peligroso. Violetas de Marzo es el primer volumen de la aclamada trilogia Berlin Noir, que completan Palido criminal y Requiem aleman.

Berlín, 1938. El ambiente se ha enrarecido en Alemania. Desde la ascensión al poder del Partido Nazi, las frías calles berlinesas que Bernie Gunther tan bien conoce están repletas de señales que conducen al pais hacia el odio, el terror y quiza la guerra. El detective Gunther, antiguo agente de policia, se vera obligado a reincorporarse al cuerpo y colaborar con unas autoridades que detesta tanto como teme. Aunque lo que preocupa a sus superiores no es banal: un criminal anda suelto, violando y asesinando a inocentes muchachas de raza aria, sin que nadie consiga darle caza. Pero ¿que sucedera cuando Gunther descubra que en el caso estan implicados varios miembros de las SS, entre quienes figura nada mas y nada menos que el mismisimo Heinrich Himmler? Palido criminal (Serie Bernie Gunther, 2), segunda entrega de la trilogia "Berlin Noir", embrion de la exitosa serie protagonizada por el detective Bernie Gunther, reune lo mejor de la literatura policiaca y de la ficcion historica. Con unos personajes magnificamente trazados y una trama vibrante, esta novela consolido a Philip Kerr como uno de los mejores escritores de su genero.

Múnich, 1949. Harto de ocuparse del hotel de su suegro, situado a un paso del campo de concentración de Dachau, y con su esposa ingresada en una institución mental, el detective Bernie Gunther decide aceptar un caso que no le presagia nada bueno: ir tras los pasos de uno de los muchos espias de las SS capaz de infiltrarse entre las filas aliadas y encontrar refugio en America. Pero, como se temia desde el principio, en Alemania nada es lo que parece, y Gunther pronto se encontrara navegando en aguas revueltas: su busqueda se vera atrapada en la guerra secreta que libran organizaciones dedicadas a ocultar antiguos nazis y agencias de inteligencia especializadas en asesinarlos. Todas ellas, por supuesto, con poderosos aliados internacionales. Unos por otros (Serie Bernie Gunther, 4) es un apasionante thriller en que Philip Kerr va mas alla de lo que podria esperarse de una novela negra: a la accion, la intriga, los giros argumentales y la siempre creciente tension narrativa, aqui se le une un trasfondo historico aun mas terrible por ser dolorosamente autentico.

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.

«El horror no necesita de la oscuridad, y a veces un acto malvado de verdad elude las sombras». A principios de 1943, llegan a Berlín noticias de una ejecución en masa de prisioneros polacos cometida

Berlín-Viena, 1947. La guerra ha terminado, pero escarbando en las ruinas del esplendor imperial de Viena el veterano Bernie Gunther hace un descubrimiento histórico 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 su pasado. En una Europa aun herida y humillada, Gunther se vera obligado a sortear todo tipo de peligros para llegar hasta el fondo de un sucio asunto que, para las muchas victimas del regimen nazi, es algo mas que una cuestion de justicia. Requiem aleman (Serie Bernie Gunther, 3) cierra la trilogia "Berlin Noir", embrion de la exitosa serie protagonizada por el detective Bernie Gunther. Ambientada en los inicios de la Guerra Fria, esta novela no solo atrapa por su excitante ritmo y creciente intriga, sino tambien por ser un vivo retrato de una epoca crucial de la historia.

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.

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...

Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of work . . . Winter 1936. A man and his wife have been shot dead in their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life.As Bernie follows the trail into the cesspit that is Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. One that takes him to the very heart of the administration, and, eventually, to Dachau . . . The first in the iconic Berlin Noir series, March Violets takes readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduces a private eye in the great tradition of Hammett and Chandler.

Mars 1943. Le Reich vient de perdre Stalingrad. Pour Joseph Goebbels, il faut absolument redonner le moral à l'armée allemande et porter un coup aux Alliés. Or sur le territoire soviétique, près d

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.

"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home."--Washington PostNew York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten. In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day. This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn. Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a fourteen-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end. Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants.