โ Scribed by Philip Kerr
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are
exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and
more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet
ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of
derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The
Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are
beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and
Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high
into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem,
the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as
Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more
death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.)
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