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A quiet flame a Bernie Gunther novel

1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He...

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Main Author: Kerr, Philip
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Series:Bernie Gunther novel ; 5
Subjects:
Gunther, Bernhard > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Undercover operations > Fiction.
Nazis > Fiction.
Girls > Crimes against > Fiction.
Argentina > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Argentina.
Historical fiction > Argentina.
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Summary:1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another-the daughter of a wealthy German banker-has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932.--From publisher description.
Item Description:"A Marian Wood book."
Originally published: London : Quercus, 2008.
Physical Description:389 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780399155307
0399155309
Author Notes:Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on February 22, 1956. He received a master's degree in law from the University of Birmingham in 1980. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked as an advertising copywriter. His first novel, March Violets, was published in 1989 and became the first book in the Bernie Gunther series. His other fiction works for adults include A Philosophical Investigation, Esau, A Five-Year Plan, Gridiron, and Hitler's Peace. He won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction.

His non-fiction works include The Penguin Book of Lies and The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. He also wrote young adult books under the name P. B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series and One Small Step. He died of cancer on March 23, 2018 at the age of 62.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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