Philip Kerr

Året er 1941, og Bernie Gunther vender tilbage fra Østfronten til et krigsplaget Berlin. Men hurtigt kaldes han til Prag af sin gamle chef, general Reinhard Heydrich, som har brug for en livvagt til at sikre sig imod den ulmende folkelige vrede i Böhmen-Mächen. På Heydrichs slot uden for Prag møder Gunther nogle af regionens ledende nazister og oplever fra første parket et kompliceret magtspil i nazisttoppen. Et magtspil, som Gunther ufrivilligt bliver en del af, da en af Heydrichs adjudanter bliver myrdet på sit værelse. Døren til værelset er låst indefra, og vinduerne forsvarligt haspet til. Bernie Gunther står over for en klassisk mordgåde, hvor morderen skal findes i den sluttede kreds af gæster. MANDEN MED ET HJERTE AF JERN er ottende bind i ­Philip Kerrs Berlin Noir-serie. Denne gang finder handlingen sted midt under Anden Verdenskrig, hvor nazisterne stadig er i offensiven, og forfølgelsen af Europas jøder tager fart. "Som i de foregående syv romaner er det en intens og spændende beretning, som Kerr disker op med. Det er sikkert og velturneret, så Kerr holder dampen oppe i den efterhånden lange saga om Bernhard Gunther, Berlin og nazisme." - Bogblogger "Den rapkæftede kommissær Bernhard Gunther er tilbage i nok en velskrevet, intens og ravnesort noir-roman. Den historiske akkuratesse er velintegreret i det velsmurte plot, Gunthers ironiske, hårdkogte fortællerstil med flittig brug af overdrivelse, sidder som regel lige i kronjuvelerne på de selvhøjtidelig, men dødsensfarlige SS-topfolk." - Kultur-cafeen "Philip Kerrs krimiserie er nået til 1941, hvor opdager Gunther skal hjælpe Reinhardt Heydrich i Prag. Det er eminent krimilitteratur." - Weekendavisen "Bind otte i Berlin Noir-serien er fremragende, og forfatterens brug af den historiske baggrund som rammen til romanen fungerer perfekt og er med til at skabe et levende og troværdigt billede af Tyskland under 2. verdenskrig." - Lektørudtalelse "Kerr skriver fænomenalt. Man føler sig grangiveligt som Gunthers alter ego, der futter rundt blandt kæderygende nazister i et krigshærget Mellemeuropa. Detaljerigdommen er ubegribelig og allestedsnærværende uden på noget tidspunkt at føles pålæsset. Personerne lever (indtil de dør pludseligt og brutalt!), og handlingen skrider rask af sted på lette fjed. For pokker, hvor er det godt." - Bogrummet

THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER'[Philip Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian RankinThe first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that transport readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduce the cynical, wise-cracking private eye who sought justice within it. MARCH VIOLETSBernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of work... Winter 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau... THE PALE CRIMINALIt is 1938 and Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner, Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. A serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state Security Service, with a team of men underneath him tasked purely with hunting the killer. But can he trust his team any more than he can trust his superiors? A GERMAN REQUIEMIn the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin. When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long. Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one crime he didn't commit. But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison.

This Edgar(R) Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective's harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective--until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War--revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...

For ease of use and practicality Straightforward Second Edition is structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D), lasting around 90 minutes. All lessons are interlinked to promote better and more memorable learning, but there is the flexibility to pick out certain key sections to focus on certain language points. GRAMMAR - Clear and uncomplicated grammar explanations present new grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further work on a difficult area and understand the language. VOCABULARY - Difficult and out of context words from the text are presented in the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical hurdles. READING - Texts are accessible for the relevant level, realistic and from a variety of different sources/contexts. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - Students are not expected to learn in a vacuum and their interests and curiosities are met with 'Did you know' sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT - Each unit culminates in a self assessment box so students can check and monitor their own progress and become more independent learners. The checklist is a selection of clear 'can-do' statements and therefore links to the CEF and portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - This section helps students to deal with common, every-day situations in an English-speaking environment - what we might think of as survival language.

For ease of use and practicality Straightforward Second Edition is structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D), lasting around 90 minutes. All lessons are interlinked to promote better and more memorable learning, but the is the flexibility to pick out certain key sections to focus on certain language points. GRAMMAR - Clear and uncomplicated grammar explanations present new grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further work on a difficult area and understand the language. VOCABULARY - Difficult and out of context words from the text are presented in the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical hurdles. READING - Texts are accessible for the relevant level, realistic and from a variety of different sources/contexts. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - Students are not expected to learn in a vacuum and their interests and curiosities are met with 'Did you know' sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT - Each unit culminates in a self assessment box so students can check and monitor their own progress and become more independent learners. The checklist is a selection of clear 'can-do' statements and therefore links to the CEF and portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - This section helps students to deal with common, every-day situations in an English-speaking environment - what we might think of as survival language.

The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for homework. This version comes without the key. READING/LISTENING - All Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on the accompanying CD - this will provide students with further listening and pronunciation practice. To provide them with integrated listening and writing practice there is also a series of dictations for them to check their understanding. As they are usually working alone on the Workbook, students will be able to work at their own pace and practise key language further. TRANSLATION - Students at this lower level are given the opportunity to link the language learnt with their own language. WRITING - Special feature at lower levels is that all Writing work is contained here, in the back of the Workbook, covering a wide variety of genres pertinent to students' every day needs. READING - Each Workbook has a complete Macmillan Reader for the relevant level at the back of the book allowing students to naturally expand their language outside of the everyday classes.

For ease of use and practicality Straightforward Second Edition is structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D), lasting around 90 minutes. All lessons are interlinked to promote better and more memorable learning, but there is the flexibility to pick out certain key sections to focus on certain language points. GRAMMAR - Clear and uncomplicated grammar explanations present new grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further work on a difficult area and understand the language. VOCABULARY - Difficult and out of context words from the text are presented in the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical hurdles. READING - Texts are accessible for the relevant level, realistic and from a variety of different sources/contexts. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - Students are not expected to learn in a vacuum and their interests and curiosities are met with 'Did you know' sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT - Each unit culminates in a self assessment box so students can check and monitor their own progress and become more independent learners. The checklist is a selection of clear 'can-do' statements and therefore links to the CEF and portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - This section helps students to deal with common, every-day situations in an English-speaking environment - what we might think of as survival language

The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for homework. This version comes without the key. READING/LISTENING - All Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on the accompanying CD - this will provide students with further listening and pronunciation practice. To provide them with integrated listening and writing practice there is also a series of dictations for them to check their understanding. As they are usually working alone on the Workbook, students will be able to work at their own pace and practise key language further. TRANSLATION - Students at this lower level are given the opportunity to link the language learnt with their own language. WRITING - Special feature at lower levels is that all Writing work is contained here, in the back of the Workbook, covering a wide variety of genres pertinent to students' every day needs. READING - Each Workbook has a complete Macmillan Reader for the relevant level at the back of the book allowing students to naturally expand their language outside of the everyday classes.

Bernie Gunther har i en årrække haft held til at gemme sig i Cuba, men den falske anklage for mord, der har forhindret ham i at vende tilbage til Europa, indhenter ham nu endelig i 1954. I fængslet, først på Guantanamo, senere i Berlin, begynder andre anklager imidlertid at spøge. For Bernie var SS’er på Østfronten under krigen, og nu bliver han en bekvem syndebuk for andre SS-officerer, der gerne vil have renset deres egne navne for anklager for krigsforbrydelser. Bernie står til dødsstraf – med mindre han er parat til at hjælpe den franske efterretningstjeneste. Bernie er uvillig, men har intet valg. Gennem Bernie Gunthers øjne ser Kerr nærmere på de kompromiser, de allierede indgik med det nye Vest-tyskland, mens Den kolde Krig blev koldere og koldere. GRÅZONE er syvende del af Philip Kerrs fremragende Berlin Noir-serie. Gid denne serie vil fortsætte og fortsætte... Den er en fest for Kerr-kendere. Det hele er blændende fortalt (…)Kerr fortæller sin historie i et sanseligt sprog, der gennem Ole Steen Hansens fine oversættelse også på dansk fremstår vidunderligt billedrigt og veloplagt. Nye læsere kan foreløbig glæde sig over, at der nu er syv bind at læse i streg – det er der god grund til at misunde dem. (5 hjerter, Politiken) Kerr indfrier legende let sit tårnhøje ambitionsniveau, og Gråzone står lige så lysende som de øvrige bind i serien. Jeg har skrevet det før, og jeg gentager gerne mig selv – læs Philip Kerr og bliv oplyst og klogere. Tanken om at have Berlin-Noir serien til gode, gør mig nærmest grøn af misundelse - det findes ikke bedre. (Weekendavisen)

Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery...that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own"(Los Angeles Times). Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U. S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad... Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life. But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days...

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen. Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin, and ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.

Året er 1948 og annen verdenskrig er slutt. Den hardkokte privatdetektiv Bernhard Günther er kommet helskinnet gjennom krigen. I det sønderbombete Berlin, hvor spenningene mellom de vestlige stormakter og Sovjetunionen er voksende, forsøker Bernie å videreføre sin virksomhet som privatdetektiv. Han får til oppgave å oppklare et mord på en amerikansk offiser i Wien, men oppdager hurtig at han har stukket hendene i et vepsebol fullt av gamle nazitopper og russiske og amerikanske agenter. De to første i Berlin Noir trilogien, Marsfioler og Den bleke forbryter, er utgitt som billigbok av Pocketforlaget. Trilogien har fått en kun femmere og seksere i rekke aviser

Berlin 1934: Nazisterne har overtaget magten. Livet forandrer sig for de fleste tyskere, ikke mindst for jøderne, der diskrimineres og udelukkes fra samfundet. Nazificeringen af politiet har fået Bernie Gunther til nødtvunget at forlade politiet og i stedet tage arbejde som hoteldetektiv. Alligevel formår han ikke at holde sig uden for begivenhedernes gang, da kombinationen af to ligfund, forberedelserne til De Olympiske Lege 1936, en smuk, amerikansk journalist og en brutal Chicago-gangster sender ham direkte ind i mørkets hjerte. Havana 1954: Gunther har fundet et tilflugtssted i det præ-kommunistiske Cuba under et nyt navn. Han arbejder på at realisere drømmen om at vende tilbage til Tyskland for at leve resten af sit liv der. Men fortiden stikker hovedet frem, og Gunther finder endnu en gang sig selv i rollen som detektiv. Det, der skete i Berlin tyve år tidligere, må nu finde sin afslutning. OM DØDE EJ OPSTÅR er sjette bind i Philip Kerrs Berlin Noir-serie. ”Nazikrimi skrevet med fingerspitzgefühl. OM DØDE EJ OPSTÅR er en forrygende historisk ’tour de force’ og en blændende godt fortalt krimi. [...] gedigen og spændende underholdning…et særdeles flot historisk tidsbillede. Jan Vandall, MetroXpress

A terrifyingly prescient cult classic by the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series. "Chilling...absorbing...part techno-thriller, part futuristic detective story, part diary of a serial killer."--The New York Times Book Review LONDON, 2013. Serial killings have reached epidemic proportions--even with the widespread government use of DNA detection, brain-imaging, and the "punitive coma." Beautiful, whip-smart, and driven by demons of her own, Detective Isadora "Jake" Jacowicz must stop a murderer, code-named "Wittgenstein," who has taken it upon himself to eliminate any man who has tested posi­tive for a tendency towards violent behavior--even if his victim has never committed a crime. He is a killer whose intellectual brilliance is matched only by his homicidal madness.

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDAs Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba. Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer. As Bernie digs to unearth the truth, he discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its dramatic and violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba.

Privatdetektiven Bernhard Günther kastes ut i oppklaringen av mordene på fire jenter i Berlin. Men en tilsynelatende gal seriemorders verk viser seg å dekke over fanatiske politiske hensikter med stor innvirkning på fremtidens Tyskland. Dette er andre bind i Berlin Noir trilogien.

In this riveting historical mystery novel from New York Times bestselling author Philip Kerr, Bernie Gunther trails a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires... Buenos Aires, 1950. After being falsely accused of war crimes, Bernie Gunther--like the Nazis he has always despised--has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the Per n government. But the tough, fast-talking ex-Berlin detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low. The local police pressure Bernie into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up gruesomely mutilated. What's more, her murder just might be linked to a missing German banker's daughter and a long-unsolved case Bernie worked back in Berlin before the war. After all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentina's shores--state-licensed murderers and torturers--so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?

Året er 1948 og annen verdenskrig er slutt. Den hardkokte privatdetektiv Bernhard Günther er kommet helskinnet gjennom krigen. Og i det sønderbombete Berlin, hvor spenningene mellom de vestlige stormakter og Sovjetunionen er voksende, forsøker Bernie å videreføre sin virksomhet som privatdetektiv. Han får til oppgave å oppklare et mord på en amerikansk offiser i Wien, men oppdager hurtig at han har stukket hendene i et vepsebol fullt av gamle nazitopper og russiske og amerikanske agenter. ET TYSK REKVIEM er tredje bind i Philip Kerrs berømte Berlin Noir trilogi.