Bernie Gunther Serie

Esta serie sigue a un detective privado que navega por las turbulentas décadas de la Alemania nazi y la Europa de posguerra. Con una mirada impávida a la realidad, investiga casos que lo llevan a los rincones más oscuros de la sociedad. La serie ofrece una aguda crítica a los regímenes políticos y las complejidades morales de la época, mientras su protagonista lucha por sobrevivir y mantener su integridad.

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March Violets
Philip Kerr
272 páginas
10 horas de lectura
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 páginas
11 horas de lectura
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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A German Requiem
Philip Kerr
320 páginas
12 horas de lectura
Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.
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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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Una llama misteriosa
Philip Kerr
En esta intrigante novela de misterio histórico, Bernie Gunther sigue la pista de un asesino en serie en Buenos Aires en 1950. Después de ser falsamente acusado de crímenes de guerra, Bernie Gunther, al igual que los nazis que siempre ha despreciado, ha recibido una nueva vida y un pasaporte limpio por parte del gobierno de Perón. Pero el duro y elocuente exdetective de Berlín no tiene el lujo de pasar desapercibido. La policía local presiona a Bernie para que se haga cargo de un caso en el que una chica ha aparecido brutalmente mutilada. Además, su asesinato podría estar vinculado a la desaparición de la hija de un banquero alemán y a un caso sin resolver en el que Bernie trabajó en Berlín antes de la guerra. Después de todo, la escoria de la tierra ha estado llegando a las costas de Argentina: asesinos y torturadores con licencia estatal, así que, ¿por qué no podría haber un asesino en serie entre ellos?
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Si los muertos no resucitan
Philip Kerr
512 páginas
18 horas de lectura
Un año después de abandonar la Kripo, la Policía Criminal alemana, Bernie Gunther trabaja en el Hotel Adlon, en donde se aloja la periodista norteamericana Noreen Charalambides, que ha llegado a Berlín para investigar el creciente fervor antijudío y la sospechosa designación de la ciudad como sede de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1936. Noreen y Gunther se aliarán dentro y fuera de la cama seguirle la pista a una trama que une las altas esferas del nazismo con el crimen organizado estadounidense. Un chantaje, doble y calculado, les hará renunciar a destapar la miseria y los asesinatos, pero no al amor. Sin embargo, Noreen es obligada a volver a Estados Unidos, y Gunther ve cómo, otra vez, una mujer se pierde en las sombras. Hasta que veinte años después, ambos se reencuentran en la insurgente Habana de Batista. Pero los fantasmas nunca viajan solos. Cínico y malencarado, pero honesto y sensible, Bernie Gunther regresa tras la trilogía "Berlin Noir" (Violetas de Marzo, Pálido criminal y Réquiem alemán), ampliada posteriormente con Unos por otros y La llama misteriosa. Con Si los muertos no resucitan ha obtenido III Premio Internacional de novela Negra RBA.
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Field Grey. Mission Walhalla, englische Ausgabe
Philip Kerr
567 páginas
20 horas de lectura
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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Prague fatale
Philip Kerr
544 páginas
20 horas de lectura
'The Prague Fatale' is Bernie Gunther's eighth outing. Set in Prague in 1942, it delivers all the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. It is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.
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A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau – weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that’s now a rarity. When human remains are found deep in the Katyn Forest, Bernie is sent to investigate. Rumour has it that this mass grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians. For Josef Goebbels, proof of Russian involvement is sure to destroy the Western Alliance, giving Germany a chance to reverse its devastating losses. But supposing the truth is far more damaging to the German cause? It’s Bernie Gunther’s job to give Goebbels what he needs. But when there’s nothing left for Gunther to lose, the compulsion to speak the truth becomes ever stronger…
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The lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
576 páginas
21 horas de lectura
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 páginas
14 horas de lectura
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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Azul de Prusia
Philip Kerr
544 páginas
20 horas de lectura
1956. El general Erich Mielke, un alto mando de la Stasi al que no le gustan las negativas como respuesta, ha viajado hasta la Riviera francesa para obligar a Bernie Gunther a asesinar a una mujer. Es una misión suicida y Gunther lo sabe, así que huir es su única opción. Mientras escapa de los agentes de la Stasi, el antiguo detective rememora otro caso: en 1939 fue enviado a Baviera a resolver un asesinato cometido en la segunda residencia de Hitler. Diecisiete años separan ambas historias, pero los vínculos entre pasado y presente nunca se acaban de romper.
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Greeks Bearing Gifts
Philip Kerr
464 páginas
17 horas de lectura
Bernie Gunther's back - the 13th instalment in this internationally bestselling and acclaimed series
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Metropolis
Philip Kerr
496 páginas
18 horas de lectura
New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr delves into the origins of Bernie Gunther during his early days on Berlin's Murder Squad. In his twenties, Gunther is a war veteran who has witnessed the horrors of trench warfare. When he receives a promotion out of the Vice squad, he understands that he is not escaping the criminal underworld, which includes gangs and seedy sex clubs. Set in 1928, Berlin is on the brink of chaos, where societal norms are collapsing. A disturbing wave of violent murders targets the city's most vulnerable, including prostitutes and wounded ex-soldiers. As Gunther investigates these murders, he discovers that even his own police headquarters is compromised, with the Nazi party infiltrating the Alex, Berlin's central office, amid the crumbling Weimar government. For many Berliners, including Gunther, the theater offers a fleeting escape from reality. As he navigates the city's dark underbelly, he finds solace with a sharp-witted make-up artist who matches his sardonic outlook. Yet, the pervasive sense that everything in Berlin is for sale looms large, especially for those willing to kill for it.
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