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Greeks bearing gifts a Bernie Gunther novel

It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. When Bernie tri...

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Main Author: Kerr, Philip (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
Series:Bernie Gunther novel ; #13
Subjects:
Gunther, Bernhard > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Fiction.
Private investigators > Germany > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Athens (Greece) > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Germany.
Mystery fiction > Germany.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:It is 1956 and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. When Bernie tries to confront Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war, he finds that somebody else has gotten to him first.
Item Description:"A Marian Wood book."
Physical Description:511 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780399177064
039917706X
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.

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