Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel - Philip Kerr

Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the real politik of vintage John le Carr, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene. A thriller that will challenge preconceptions and stimulate the little grey cells.--The Times (London), selecting Field Gray as a Thriller of the Year. This Edgar(R) Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective's harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective--until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War--revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...