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A Quiet Flame (Hardcover)

By: Philip Kerr (Author)

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Review

"[A]nother unnerving adventure for [Kerr's] morally conflicted hero."

"Kerr is an absolute phenomenon at incorporating the reality of the past into his fiction of it. He masters a ton of knowledge...and cleverly enhances the verisimilitude by the offhand dropping of arcana....The author integrates innumerable real-life personages into the story. They lock together with plot elements as perfectly as pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, and create as complete a picture."

"[The BERLIN NOIR] series' crowning achievement to date, and, quite possibly, the book Kerr has been working toward for two decades."

"In A QUIET FLAME, Philip Kerr's fifth novel narrated by tough-talking German private investigator Bernie Gunther, the author uses little-known facts about Argentina's anti-Semitic past as a springboard to speculate on whether the country hosted a secret concentration camp."

"Kerr, who's demonstrated his versatility with high-quality entries in other genres, cleverly and plausibly grafts history onto a fast-paced thriller plot." (starred review)

Publisher's note

Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.
A "Quiet Flame" opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the PerA3n government. But Bernie doesnat have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and anotherathe daughter of a wealthy German bankerahas gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. Itas not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shoresastate-licensed murderers and torturersaso why couldnat a serial killer be among them?
But Argentina, just like Germany, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind half a world away.
In this new postwar world, Bernie Gunther is a man without a name or a country, but still in full possession of his conscience. He is athe right kind of hero for his timeaand ours.a (Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times Book Review")

A fifth installment in a series featuring Bernie Gunther finds the detective fleeing to Perón-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war criminal activities and reluctantly investigating the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter; a situation with suspicious ties to an unsolved twenty-year-old case.

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Detective Bernie Gunther has only been in Buenos Aires for a few weeks before Colonel Montalbán requests his assistance in tracking down the person who brutally killed a teenager. Gunther, who has found exile in Argentina after World War II, worked on several cases in Berlin that Montalbán thinks might be relevant to solving this murder, and amongst the many Germans now living in Buenos Aires, there might be someone who knows something. Gunther just has to be careful not to learn too much--or to let those with something to hide know that he knows.

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