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If the dead rise not a Bernie Gunther novel

Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an...

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Main Author: Kerr, Philip.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Series: Bernie Gunther novel ; 6
Subjects:
Gunther, Bernhard > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Germany > Fiction.
Nazis > Fiction.
Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) > Fiction.
Havana (Cuba) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > Germany.
Historical fiction > Germany.
Summary: Berlin, 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage, the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther, now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel, is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing, caught between the warring factions of the Nazi apparatus.--From Amazon.com.
Item Description: "A Bernie Gunther novel"--jkt.
Originally published in the U.K. by Quercus, 209.
"A Marian Wood book."-- T.p.
Physical Description: 437 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780399156151
0399156151
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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