Philip Kerr

1957. Bernie Gunther, der nu kalder sig Christoph Ganz, lever et beskedent liv i München, hvor han arbejder som assistent i et lighus. Ad snirklede omveje bliver han ansat som taksator i et tysk forsikringsselskab, og Bernie går til jobbet som en gammel sporhund, der lugter blod. Han bliver bedt om at tage til Athen for at undersøge sin landsmand og tidligere kampdykker i Hitlers flåde, Siegfired Witzel. Han skib, Doris, er gået ned, og nu gør han usædvanligt store krav mod forsikringsselskabet. Men der er to ting, der spænder ben for, at det bliver et let job for Bernie i Athen: Witzels skib er stjålet fra græske jøder, der blev deporteret til Auschwitz under krigen. Og Witzel findes død skudt gennem begge øjne - en modus operandi, der åbner op for sluserne til uhyrligheder begået i 1943. FRYGT GRÆKERES GAVER er 13. selvstændige bog om den på samme tid kyniske og samvittighedsfulde Bernie Gunther, hvis fortid konstant bliver ved at indhente ham. Bernie Gunther er lige så uforskammet, underholdende, kampklar og interessant som altid." Det er formidabelt, som Philip Kerr har kunnet holde et tårnhøjt niveau og en gennemført og stensikker stil i bog efter bog." Nordjyske stiftstidende, 5 stjerner"Berlin Noir-bøgerne scorer typisk på tre parametre: Interessant historisk research udfoldet med lokalkolorit og levende tidsbilleder. Hårdkogt-humoristiske noir-replikker. God gammeldags spænding." Politiken, 4 af 6 hjerter"Philip Kerr holder sit eminente niveau i næstsidste bind i serien om Bernie Gunther, den kyniske antihelt med en mørk fortid og en illusionsløs fremtid." Weekendavisen"... en spændende, velfortalt, intelligent og fascinerende historie." Krimifan.dk, 5 af 5 hjerter."...alle ingredienser til en Kerr-classic er til stede ... et brag af en roman." Bogblogger.dk

Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris.'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on. Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a sunken ship, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an act of vengeance. And so Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe prepares to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

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When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2... The French Riviera, 1956 Bernie's old and dangerous adversary Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice--and he's not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they've both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler--former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch--Bernie bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked together... Obersalzberg, Germany, 1939 A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Bavaria. Bernie and Korsch have one week to find the killer before the leader of the Third Reich arrives to celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Bernie knows it would mean disaster if Hitler discovers a shocking murder has been committed on the terrace of his own home. But Obersalzberg is also home to an elite Nazi community, meaning an even bigger disaster for Bernie if his investigation takes aim at one of the party's higher-ups... 1939 and 1956: two different eras about to converge in an explosion Bernie Gunther will never forget.

1956. Bernie Gunther er på flugt fra sit franske skjul, hvor Erich Mielke og hans gorillaer i det østtyske sikkerhedspoliti, Stasi, har fundet ham. Manden, som Mielke har sat til at jage Bernie, og som stille og roligt skubber ham tættere på Tyskland, er en gammel kollega fra tiden hos kriminalpolitiet i Berlin. En på alle måder spektakulær sag blev i 1939 deres sidste sammen. 1939. Bernie indkaldes til Berghof, Hitlers private hjem i bjergene i Obersalzberg. En tysk ingeniør er blevet myrdet, og Hitlers højre hånd, selveste Martin Bormann, ønsker sagen opklaret så hurtigt og så smertefrit som muligt, uden at Føreren nogensinde må finde ud af, at hans private domæne har været hjemsted for mord. BERLINERBLÅT er det måske mest bemærkelsesværdige af Bernie Gunthers eventyr. Flere lande og sytten år adskiller mordet på Berghof og hans nuværende situation, og igen må Bernie erfare, at fortiden altid indhenter ham til sidst. Denne gang hjemme i Tyskland." BERLINERBLÅT er en af Philip Kerrs største triumfer." Politiken, 5 ud af 6 hjerter"Velskrevet og velkomponeret roman." Weekendavisen"Bogen - og hele serien generelt - er både spændende og rigtigt interessant samt intelligent læsning. Det er bøger mindst på niveau med John le Carré, og det er en ubetinget ros. Prøv selv!" Drustrups bogblog"I “Berlinerblåt” konfronteres læseren konstant med en kulsort humor, der får én til at grine larmende et kort nådigt øjeblik, inden det igen bliver gruopvækkende alvor. Kerr mestrer flot den hårfine balance mellem god underholdning og lødig historieskrivning." Bogrummet.dk

The twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' Lee ChildFrance, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory. But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet.

Det er sommeren 1956. Bernie Gunther arbejder under falsk navn som receptionschef på det berømte Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat ved Den Franske Riviera. Da verdens måske rigeste og måske mest berømte forfatter, W. Somerset Maugham, mangler en fjerde mand til et spil bridge, træder Gunther velvilligt til. Det viser sig hurtigt, at den excentriske Maugham ikke blot vil spille kort, han har også brug for professionel rådgivning i en penibel sag om afpresning. I sit sydfranske skjul forsøger Bernie Gunther at holde fortiden på afstand, men da en gammel fjende og naziforbryder, Harold Hennig, ankommer som gæst til Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, begynder det hele at gå skævt. HINSIDES TAVSHEDEN er ellevte fritstående bog i Philip Kerrs prisbelønnede og atmosfærefyldte Berlin Noir-serie. Krigen er slut, men selv i 1956 er freden endnu ikke kommet til kontinentet. Stormagternes kontraspionage spidser til, Sovjetunionen har brintbomben, og spionerne ser hele Europa som deres legeplads." En krimilitterær vinder." ? ? ? ? ?5 hjerter, Politiken"Bogen er hæsblæsende spændende. (...) Skrevet med britisk elegance og humor." Lektørudtalelse

Bernie Gunther returns in the twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. Lee Child calls Bernie Gunther 'one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written'. It's 1956 and Bernie Gunther is on the run. Ordered by Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, to murder Bernie's former lover by thallium poisoning, he finds his conscience is stronger than his desire not to be murdered in turn. Now he must stay one step ahead of Mielke's retribution. The man Mielke has sent to hunt him is an ex-Kripo colleague, and as Bernie pushes towards Germany he recalls their last case together. In 1939, Bernie was summoned by Reinhard Heydrich to the Berghof: Hitler's mountain home in Obersalzberg. A low-level German bureaucrat had been murdered, and the Reichstag deputy Martin Bormann, in charge of overseeing renovations to the Berghof, wants the case solved quickly. If the Fuhrer were ever to find out that his own house had been the scene of a recent murder - the consequences wouldn't bear thinking about. And so begins perhaps the strangest of Bernie Gunther's adventures, for although several countries and seventeen years separate the murder at the Berghof from his current predicament, Bernie will find there is some unfinished business awaiting him in Germany.

When Bernie Gunther takes on a blackmail case and gets involved in the affairs of British spies, the former detective risks exposing his own dark past in this thrilling novel hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "one of Kerr's best." Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1956. Having gone into hiding in the French Riviera, Bernie Gunther is working as a concierge at the Grand-H tel under a false name. His days and nights consist of maneuvering drunks to their rooms, shooing away prostitutes in search of trade, and answering the mindless questions posed by the absurdly rich guests--needless to say, he's miserable. Now, the man who was once a homicide detective and unwilling SS officer in Hitler's Third Reich is simply the person you turn to for touring tips or if you need a bridge partner. As it just so happens, a rich and famous writer needs someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game at the Villa Mauresque. But Somerset Maugham wants Bernie to help him get out of a game far more dangerous than bridge. Maugham is being blackmailed--perhaps because of his unorthodox lifestyle, or perhaps because, once upon a time, Maugham worked for the British Secret Service...

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Blackmail, espionage and a mass murderer from his wartime past await Bernie Gunther on the French Riviera.'A brilliantly twisting tale of espionage and betrayal' Sunday TimesThe French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving Somerset Maugham, one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century, and the notorious Cambridge Spies. All of them have dark pasts and plenty to hide - ideal candidates for a seasoned blackmailer.

I 1942 er der mange værre steder at opholde sig end Zürich, og Bernie Gunther har set sin del af dem. Så da hans overordnede beder ham om at opspore UFA-filmstudiernes starlet Dalia Dresner i Zürich, tager Bernie jobbet. Ikke at han har et valg: Hans overordnede er Joseph Goebbels, og propagandaministerens interesse i Dalia er mere end professionel. Missionen bringer Bernie til Zagreb og videre til de kroatiske udryddelseslejre. Inden længe har han den amerikanske efterretningstjeneste på nakken, og det schweiziske politi vil have ham til at se på en gammel sag, der måske har en forbindelse til Berlin. Men værst af alt: Bernie Gunther er ved at forelske sig i den gådefulde Dalia. Og Goebbels er ikke en mand, man ønsker at have som sin fjende. KVINDEN FRA ZAGREB er tiende, fritstående bog i Philip Kerrs pris­belønnede Berlin Noir-serie. Den bevæger sig dybt ind i hjertet af den tyske propagandamaskine og UFA-filmstudierne i Babelsberg. "Kvinden fra Zagreb hører hjemme blandt de bedste af Philip Kerrs Bernie Gunther-romaner, og nye læsere kan mageligt starte her, uden at man dog bør snyde sig for den oprindelige Berlin-trilogis fortættede stemning og sort-humoristiske fortællerstemme. Dog skal der lyde en advarsel: Man risikerer at blive afhængig!" Weekendavisen "Kerr skriver fantastisk. Legende let, levende og indlevende og det er umuligt at slippe bogen, når først du er i gang... Kerr spinder elegant en historie, hvor du gang på gang bliver overrasket, når historien tager en ny vending. Han er sprogligt en af tidens bedste forfattere med mange tråde til klassiske krimiforfattere som f. eks. Chandler." Fredericia Dagblad, 6 ud af 6 stjerner ? ? ? ? ? ? "Skulle jeg kun læse en forfatter resten af mit liv, så ville jeg uden den mindste rysten på hånden vælge skotske Philip Kerr. Udover at være som skotter er flest, nemlig svært charmerende, så skriver Kerr godt, altid underholdende og meget, meget bredt. Der er noget for enhver smag." JAN M. JOHANSEN / ODENSE BIBLIOTEKERNE fra Odense Ugeavis "...velsmurt underholdning i en usædvanlig ramme." Lolland-Falster Folketidende

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