Metropolis
A Bernie Gunther Thriller
- Info:
- Quercus Publishing, 2019 - brož., 400 str.
- EAN:
- 9781787473195
- ISBN:
- 978-1-787-47319-5
Recenze:
Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin. ´One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written´ - LEE CHILD. ´One of the greatest master story-tellers in English´ - ALAN FURST. Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin´s Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie´s first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who´d like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl´s father runs Berlin´s foremost criminal ring, and he´s prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter´s killer.
Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city´s streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther´s ...
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