By Philip Kerr
New York Times–bestselling writer Philip Kerr’s a lot expected go back to Bernie Gunther, in a sequence hailed by way of The day-by-day Beast as “the most sensible crime novels round today.”
The French Riviera, 1956. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin murder dick and unwilling SS officer, is the go-to man on the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, the fellow you switch to for traveling assistance or if you would like a fourth for bridge. because it occurs, a neighborhood author wishes simply that, a person to fill the fourth seat in a typical online game that's the ordinary night diversion on the Villa Mauresque. not only any author. possibly the main recognized dwelling author on the earth: W. Somerset Maugham.
And it seems it's not only a bridge accomplice that he wishes; it’s a few expert recommendation. Maugham is being blackmailed—perhaps as a result of his unorthodox way of life. or maybe as a result of whatever in his prior, simply because as soon as upon a time, Maugham labored for the British mystery provider, and the folk now blackmailing him are spies.
As Gunther enthusiasts understand, all roads lead again to the viper's nest that used to be Hitler’s 3rd Reich and to the killing fields that unfold like a sickness throughout Europe. Even in 1956, peace has no longer come to the continent now that the Soviets even have the H-bomb and spies from each significant energy be at liberty to make all of Europe their playground.
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