Bernie Gunther Seria

Bernie Gunther, prywatny detektyw, porusza się po burzliwych latach nazistowskich Niemiec i powojennej Europy. Jego śledztwa prowadzą go w najciemniejsze zakamarki społeczeństwa, gdzie zmaga się z brutalną rzeczywistością. W obliczu politycznych reżimów i moralnych dylematów, Gunther walczy o przetrwanie i zachowanie swojej integralności, stawiając czoła niebezpieczeństwom, które zagrażają jego życiu.

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March Violets
Philip Kerr
272 strony
10 godzin czytania
Discover the first crime novel in the late Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series - Berlin Noir - set in Hitler's Germany during the 1930s . . . Winter, 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed, their home burned. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. He turns to Bernhard Gunther, a private eye and former cop. 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 . . . Stylishly written and powerfully evocative, Kerr's crime classic transports readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduces a private eye in the great tradition of Hammett and Chandler. 'Wonderfully sharp and satirical' Times 'An impressive debut' Guardian 'Fast-paced, laconic, unpredictable, and witty' Evening Standard 'For Christmas, I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes, Guardian
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The Pale Criminal
Philip Kerr
288 stron
11 godzin czytania
In the sweltering summer heat wave of 1938, the German people anxiously await the outcome of the Munich conference, wondering whether Hitler will plunge Europe into another war. Meanwhile, private investigator Bernie Gunther has taken on two cases involving blackmail. The first victim is a rich widow. The second is Bernie himself. Having been caught framing an innocent Jew for a series of vicious murders, the Kripo—the Berlin criminal police—are intent on locating the real killer and aren't above blackmailing their former colleague to get the job done. Temporarily promoted to the rank of Kommissar, Bernie sets out to solve the dual mysteries and begins an investigation that will expose him to the darkest depths of humanity... Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin—until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, The Pale Criminal is noir writing at its blackest and best.
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Niemieckie requiem
Philip Kerr
416 stron
15 godzin czytania
Posępny kryminał i mroczne czasy. Wojna po wojnie, ludzka niepewność, ciemne interesy i bieda. Bernie Günther znów nie może komuś odmówić i angażuje się w wyjątkowo niebezpieczną i śmierdzącą sprawę… Bernie Günther pod koniec wojny dostał się do radzieckiej niewoli, z której szczęśliwie powrócił. Znów pracuje jako prywatny detektyw. Któregoś dnia otrzymuje nietypową ofertę od radzieckiego pułkownika znającego się ponoć z Emilem Beckerem z Kripo. Ów znajomy Berniego z przedwojnia, z dawnych lat berlińskich, siedzi w wiedeńskim więzieniu, oskarżony o zamordowanie kapitana armii Stanów Zjednoczonych, i grozi mu kara śmierci. Sprawa jest podejrzana i poważna, a Bernie ma otrzymać równie poważną sumę, jeśli przeprowadzi dochodzenie i spróbuje ocalić swego kolegę po fachu
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The one from the other
Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther, Kerr's beloved protagonist, takes center stage in this fast-paced, twist-filled historical thriller that turns his acclaimed German trilogy into a surprise-laden quartet.
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A quiet flame
Philip Kerr
448 stron
16 godzin czytania
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?
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Bernie Gunther: If The Dead Rise Not
Philip Kerr
448 stron
16 godzin czytania
An instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series, with storytelling that is fresher and more vivid than ever. Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the warring factions of the Nazi apparatus. Havana, 1954: Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is quickly gaining a stranglehold on the city's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, who has been unceremoniously kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced in Cuba with a new life, seemingly one of routine and relative peace. But Bernie discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past: He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days, who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward-and an old lover, who may be the murderer. If the Dead Rise Not is everything fans have come to expect from Philip Kerr: twisted intrigue, tight plotting, quick-witted one-liners, a hang-by-your-thumbs ending, and, most significant, a richer, wiser Bernie Gunther.
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Field Grey. Mission Walhalla, englische Ausgabe
Philip Kerr
567 stron
20 godzin czytania
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...
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Miłość i śmierć w Pradze
Philip Kerr
Rok 1941, Bernie wraca z frontu wschodniego i podejmuje pracę w wydziale zabójstw berlińskiej Kripo, służąc pod Reinhardem Heydrichem, człowiekiem, którego jednocześnie nienawidzi i którego się boi. Tymczasem Heydrich został niedawno mianowany Recihprotektorem Czechosłowacji. Dostawszy cynk o planowanym na siebie zamachu, przełożony wydaje Bernie`emu rozkaz towarzyszenia mu w swojej wiejskiej posiadłości na przedmieściach Pragi, gdzie Heydrich zaprosił najbardziej odrażające kreatury spośród urzędników Trzeciej Rzeszy, by świętować awans. Wśród gości znajduje się również zabójca...
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Byl pan w Smolensku, kapitanie?
Philip Kerr
Rok 1943 przynosi niemieckiej propagandzie coś, co według Goebelsa może nawet odwrócić losy wojny. Chodzi o masowe groby odkryte pod Smoleńskiem i ich znaczenie propagandowe. By wypełnić tajne zadanie, Bernhard Günther opuszcza Berlin i udaje się na wschód, aby osobiście zbadać, co znaleziono w Lesie Katyńskim. Bernie na miejscu wplątuje się także w sprawę pewnego zabójstwa i wpada w nie lada tarapaty. Kryminalna fabuła rozwija się w tle jednej z najbardziej makabrycznych zbrodni wojennych, a przyjęty przez Kerra punkt widzenia i narracja pozwalają spojrzeć na mord w Katyniu z innej perspektywy. Ani czytelnik, ani Bernie Günther nie mierzyli się jeszcze z historią w ten sposób.
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The lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
576 stron
21 godzin czytania
Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke ...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.
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The Other Side of Silence
Philip Kerr
400 stron
14 godzin czytania
It is 1956 on the French Riviera. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working as concierge at the Grand Hotel, St Jean Cap Ferrat, living under a false name. The Riviera retains its louche glamour even in these gloomy post-war years - a sunny place for shady people. Bernie plays bridge to stave off boredom and misses his old detective life. Then his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service. Bernie never forgets a face, especially when it belongs to a mass murderer who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Since the war, Hennig has enjoyed a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham
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Prussian Blue
Philip Kerr
France, 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.
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Greeks Bearing Gifts
Philip Kerr
464 strony
17 godzin czytania
Bernie Gunther's back - the 13th instalment in this internationally bestselling and acclaimed series
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Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther thriller
Philip Kerr
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife.Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer.Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...
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Berlin Noir
Philip Kerr
Now published in one paperback volume, these three mysteries are exciting and insightful looks at life inside Nazi Germany -- richer and more readable than most histories of the period. We first meet ex-policeman Bernie Gunther in 1936, in March Violets (a term of derision which original Nazis used to describe late converts.) The Olympic Games are about to start; some of Bernie's Jewish friends are beginning to realize that they should have left while they could; and Gunther himself has been hired to look into two murders that reach high into the Nazi Party. In The Pale Criminal, it's 1938, and Gunther has been blackmailed into rejoining the police by Heydrich himself. And in A German Requiem, the saddest and most disturbing of the three books, it's 1947 as Gunther stumbles across a nightmare landscape that conceals even more death than he imagines. (For a review of Kerr's latest novel, The Grid, see our Thrillers section.)
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