Metropolis: novel

✍ Scribed by Philip Kerr

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 414 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"The Bernie Gunther series is one of the great triumphs of modern noir, and it will be sorely missed."--Booklist(starred review)**
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New 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...