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by Philip Kerr (Author) "The boat was the SS Giovanni, which seemed only appropriate given the fact that at least three of its passengers, including myself, had been in..." (more)

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Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: GP Putnam And Sons (Mar 24 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399155309
ISBN-13: 978-0399155307
Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 16.3 x 3.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 567 g

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.

A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the Perón government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another - the daughter of a wealthy German banker - has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores - state-licensed murderers and torturers - so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?

But Argentina, just like Germany, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind half a world away.

In this new postwar world, Bernie Gunther is a man without a name or a country, but still in full possession of his conscience. He is "the right kind of hero for his time - and ours." (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review)

About the Author

Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956 and now lives in London. As a freelance journalist he has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and Time Out. He is the author of the novels March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem (also published by Penguin in one volume as Berlin Noir), and he has edited The Penguin Book of Lies (1991) and The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds (1993).

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Tribute to a Good German, May 24 2009

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Once again, Kerr has lived up to his well-earned reputation for dealing with the deep, dark, and ugly side of humankind. This story is full of an incomprehensible brew of brutality, courage, fear, love and bad consciences. Kerr is one of those rare literary risk-takers when it comes to creatively using whatever is available in the human estate to get at the truth. In this novel, his creative genius dredges up a large dose of the nastiness and horror from the modern past of two major countries in order to produce a believable story about one man's grit and determination to bring to justice some of its more notorious criminals in hiding. Former police detective, Bernie Gunther, is the hero who, back in the early 30s in Germany was in hot pursuit of a suspected Nazi killer who raped and enviscerated his victims when he is suddenly inexplicably taken off the case and given a desk job. WW II intervenes and Gunther's life becomes entangled with the Nazi party. Later in the early 50s, he and a number of prominent Nazis like Eichmann are secreted out of Germany to Argentina to start a new life. It is there that the story takes off when a Jewish group contacts him to investigate another vicious spate of murders that eerily the ones back in Germany. What Gunther, aka Hauser, is about to learn is that the unfinished business of his past is coming back in dramatic fashion to shape the outcome of his latest assignment. By accepting the job, he has unwittingly step into a more sinister situation than anything he faced during WW II that involves the likes of powerful figures such as the Argentinean government, Juan and Evita Peron, Dr. Mengeles, and lesser Nazi henchmen. What truly makes this novel such a fascinating read is that as fiction it parallels the real story of nefarious activities connected with the Peron dictatorship and the infamous Directives 11 and 12 of the late 1930s that sanctioned the persecution of Jews. This novel serves as an entertaining thriller and a polished memoriam that takes the reader inside a society that is struggling to come to grips with the unpunished wrongs of the past. At the end, we are left wondering if Argentina has really turned the page on this grisly chapter in its history.

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