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If the Dead Rise Not

Bernie Gunther Series, Book 6

#6 in series

by Philip Kerr
Paul Hecht
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Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes in this "richly satisfying mystery ... that evokes the noir sensibilities of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while breaking new ground of its own" (Los Angeles Times).
Berlin, 1934. Former policeman Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself caught between warring factions of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, connive to soft-pedal Nazi anti-Semitism before the 1936 Olympiad ...
Havana, 1954. Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is gaining a stranglehold on Cuba's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, after being kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced with a relatively peaceful new life.
But he discovers that he cannot truly outrun his past when he collides with an old love and a vicious killer from his Berlin days ...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Bernie Gunther Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 20, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781461806905
      • File size: 480902 KB
      • Duration: 16:41:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This sixth book in Kerr's Bernie Gunther detective series is not the jumping-in point for a newcomer to the saga of a former German policeman, now a hotel house detective in 1934 Berlin. The deep-noir plot gives Paul Hecht plenty of opportunity to display Bernie's cool imperturbability in circumstances that include being interrogated by police and being in the throes of passion with an American writer who is in town to write about the upcoming Berlin Olympics and its exclusion of Jews. Hecht offers a guttural tone to portray the malevolent Nazis but, in the novel's second part, set 20 years later in Havana, does little to flavor the musical speech of the Cuban natives and émigrés. Nonetheless, Hecht skillfully captures Bernie's Chandleresque wisecracking. B.V.M. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from January 18, 2010
      Both newcomers and established fans will appreciate Kerr's outstanding sixth Bernie Gunther novel (after A Quiet Flame
      ), as it fills in much of the German PI's backstory. By 1934, as the Nazis tighten their grip on power, Gunther has left the Berlin police force for a job as a hotel detective. His routine inquiry into the theft of a Chinese box from a guest, a German-American from New York, becomes more complex after he learns that the identical objet d'art was reported stolen just the previous day by an official from the Asiatic Museum. The case proves to be connected with German efforts to forestall an American boycott of the 1936 Olympics, and provides ample opportunities for Gunther, whom Sam Spade would have found a kindred spirit, to make difficult moral choices. Once again the author smoothly integrates a noir crime plot with an authentic historical background. Note that the action precedes the events recounted in the series' debut, March Violets
      (1989).

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  • English

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