The Lady From Zagreb
A hard-boiled detective thriller set during WWII
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4.5 • 91 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD
Summer, 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke . . .
One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself.
But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.
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PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR
'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS
'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST
'One of the most memorable and original characters' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Bitterly, darkly funny' SUNDAY HERALD
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Prolific British author Philip Kerr delivers a crackling eighth novel in the Bernie Gunther series that will ensnare you whether or not you’re already familiar with the series. This noir tale swirls around the relationship between Gunther—an ex-homicide cop and reluctant agent of the Nazi intelligence service—and a stunning Yugoslavian-born actress hailed as Germany’s answer to Greta Garbo. Kerr took our breath away with his chilling depictions of a hellacious time and an action-packed plot. The Lady from Zagreb proves that Gunther is one of the most interesting and complicated detectives in fiction.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Kerr's superlative 10th novel featuring former homicide cop Bernie Gunther (after 2013's A Man Without Breath) finds Bernie, now an officer in the SD, at an international police conference in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee in the summer of 1942. Heinrich Heckholz, an attorney, wants Bernie to use his access at Wannsee to gather evidence that a charitable foundation is involved in fraud. Soon after, Heckholz is beaten to death with a bust of Hitler in his office. Almost a year later, with the crime still unsolved, Joseph Goebbels asks Bernie to help movie star Dalia Dresner locate her estranged father. Bernie falls quickly and hard for Dalia and agrees to travel on her behalf to Yugoslavia, where he witnesses some horrific scenes. Kerr combines a murder mystery that Raymond Chandler could have devised with a searing look at the inhumanity of the Nazis and their allies, presented from a unique perspective.
