Field Grey: A Bernie Gunther Novel (Bernie Gunther Mystery 7): Bernie Gunther Thriller 7 - Softcover

Philip Kerr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849164142 ISBN 13: 9781849164146

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2011

Synopsis

'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.'

So says Bernie Gunther. 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, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder.

The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen.

Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin, and ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.

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Review:

'Far more illuminating and enjoyable than the season's other big thriller, John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor' Daily Express.

'A brilliantly crafted challenge to the stereotypical received history of the Second World War' The Times.

'Kerr is a master of evoking the spirit of the age' Financial Times.

'Rich, compelling, beautifully written and with a central character that it's impossible not to admire' Daily Mail. --Reviews.

Book Description:

It is 1954 and Bernie Gunther 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849164142
• ISBN 13: 9781849164146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384