A Quiet Flame Philip Kerr

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A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr

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SeriesBernie Gunther

Summary

Bernie Gunther, Berlin's hardest-boiled private eye, returns in the fifth book in this internationally bestselling series. Moving the plot from Pre-War Germany to the dangers of Argentina, Kerr yet again delivers a powerful, compelling thriller

A Quiet Flame Summary

A Quiet Flame: Bernie Gunther Thriller 5 by Philip Kerr

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him.

A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve.

Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?

A Quiet Flame Reviews

Kerr brilliantly evokes the edgy atmosphere of the post-war period in one of the most gripping and accomplished detective novels published this year - Sunday Times * Sunday Times *
One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction...powerful and impressive - Observer * Observer *
Cogently plotted odyssey....cracking stuff - The Times * The Times *
'The scope and breadth of Philip Kerr's historical research, and the subtle complexity of plot structure, are worthy of Le Carre. The fast-paced, crack-a-minute delivery smacks of Chandler. The comparisons are inevitable, but Kerr parries the plaudits with ease' Irish Examiner.

About Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr has written over thirty books of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. The sixth book in the series, If the Dead Rise Not, won the CWA Historical Dagger. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers, The Children of the Lamp. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.

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GOR001246316

ISBN 13

9781847245588

ISBN 10

1847245587

Title

A Quiet Flame: Bernie Gunther Thriller 5 by Philip Kerr

Author

Philip Kerr

Series

Bernie Gunther

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Quercus Publishing

Year published

2008-10-02

Number of pages

416

Prizes

Short-listed for CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 2008

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Note

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