By: Philip Kerr
Genre: Thriller Historical
Marian Wood Books/Putnam
April 1, 2018
On Sale: April 3, 2018
Featuring: Bernie Gunther
528 pages
ISBN: 039917706X
EAN: 9780399177064
Kindle: B0755Z97TP
Hardcover / e-Book
Book Summary
A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of
World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical
thriller in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling
series.
Munich, 1956. Bernie Gunther has a
new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when
an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages
"Christoph Ganz" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a
major German insurance company with a client in Athens,
Greece.
Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie
begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish
former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the
war. Witzel's claimed losses are large , and, even worse,
they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to
Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he
finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a
corpse in his place.
Enter Lieutenant Leventis, who
recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a
killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back
then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose
connection to the German government made him untouchable.
He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years,
waiting for his second chance at justice…
Working
together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases—new
and old—to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to
acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens…one who may
have never left.