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A Tribute to a Good German, Mai 24 2009
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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