A man without breath : a Bernie Gunther novel
Kerr, Philip
A man without breath : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr. - 465 pages ; 24 cm
"A Marian Wood book."
Set in the spring of 1943, Kerr's captivating ninth Bernie Gunther novel takes Gunther-now attached to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau-from Berlin to Smolensk, to investigate mass graves of Polish officers discovered in the nearby Katyn forest. Josef Goebbels, seeking a propaganda coup after Germany's Stalingrad defeat, is keen to pin the atrocity on the Soviets. The tormented honest cop also gets on the trail of a killer targeting German soldiers, even as he finds himself in an anomalous moral position ("a situation in which you can have an army corporal hanged for the rape and murder of a Russian peasant girl in one village that's only a few miles from another village where an SS special action group has just murdered twenty-five thousand men, women and children"). Kerr makes everything look easy, from blending history with a clever and intricate whodunit plot to powerful descriptions of cruelty.
9780399160790
2012050227
Private investigators----Fiction
Germany----Fiction
Mystery fiction
Historical fiction
PR6061.E784 / M35 2013
MYS KER
A man without breath : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr. - 465 pages ; 24 cm
"A Marian Wood book."
Set in the spring of 1943, Kerr's captivating ninth Bernie Gunther novel takes Gunther-now attached to the Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau-from Berlin to Smolensk, to investigate mass graves of Polish officers discovered in the nearby Katyn forest. Josef Goebbels, seeking a propaganda coup after Germany's Stalingrad defeat, is keen to pin the atrocity on the Soviets. The tormented honest cop also gets on the trail of a killer targeting German soldiers, even as he finds himself in an anomalous moral position ("a situation in which you can have an army corporal hanged for the rape and murder of a Russian peasant girl in one village that's only a few miles from another village where an SS special action group has just murdered twenty-five thousand men, women and children"). Kerr makes everything look easy, from blending history with a clever and intricate whodunit plot to powerful descriptions of cruelty.
9780399160790
2012050227
Private investigators----Fiction
Germany----Fiction
Mystery fiction
Historical fiction
PR6061.E784 / M35 2013
MYS KER
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