Greeks bearing gifts : a Bernie Gunther novel /
Kerr, Philip
Greeks bearing gifts : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr - 486 p. ; 24 cm. - Bernie Gunther ; 13 .
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.
English
9781784296537
Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) --Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction
Private investigators--Germany--Fiction
Murder--Investigation--Fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC KER
Greeks bearing gifts : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr - 486 p. ; 24 cm. - Bernie Gunther ; 13 .
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.
English
9781784296537
Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) --Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Fiction
Private investigators--Germany--Fiction
Murder--Investigation--Fiction
Historical fiction
Mystery fiction
FIC KER
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