If the Dead Rise Not - 9780399156151
Un libro in lingua di Philip Kerr edito da Penguin Group USA, 2010
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An instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series, with storytelling that is fresher and more vivid than ever.
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.
Havana, 1954: Batista, aided by the CIA, has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is quickly gaining a stranglehold on the city's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie, who has been unceremoniously kicked out of Buenos Aires, has resurfaced in Cuba with a new life, seemingly one of routine and relative peace. But Bernie discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past: He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days, who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward-and an old lover, who may be the murderer.
If the Dead Rise Not is everything fans have come to expect from Philip Kerr: twisted intrigue, tight plotting, quick-witted one-liners, a hang-by-your-thumbs ending, and, most significant, a richer, wiser Bernie Gunther.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: If the Dead Rise Not
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Philip Kerr
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 18 Marzo '10
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) Fiction Private investigators Germany Fiction Nazis Fiction
- ISBN-10: 0399156151
- EAN-13: 9780399156151