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A quiet flame a bernie gunther novel

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 Per̤n government. But Bernie doesn't 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 another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker, has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores, state-licensed murderers and torturers, so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?

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  • "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 Perón government. But Bernie doesn't 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 another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker, has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores, state-licensed murderers and torturers, so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?"
  • "La quatrième de couverture indique : "Il paraît qu'en présence du Führer, ses admirateurs sentaient brûler en eux une douce flamme... En 1950, lorsque Bernie Gunther débarque à Buenos Aires sous un nom d'emprunt, la ville est infestée d'exilés nazis, qui ont reconstitué leurs réseaux et leurs pratiques. Informé de sa véritable identité, le chef de la police charge Bernie d'une enquête qui lui rappelle une affaire non élucidée, alors qu'il était détective à la Kripo berlinoise : une jeune fille retrouvée, atrocement mutilée, une autre disparue. L'occasion, pour Bernie, de découvrir l'ampleur de la collusion entre le régime Perón et les nazis... Dans le sillage de La Trilogie berlinoise, la confrontation entre l'Histoire et le crime continue, sous la plume de Philip Kerr, de provoquer des étincelles.""
  • "After being falsely fingered as a war criminal, Bernie Gunther - the tough, fast-talking detective and ex-Berlin policeman forced into the horrors of World War II - is en route to Buenos Aires. It's 1950, and like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, Bernie has been promised a new life and a clean passport by the Perón government. But Bernie is soon pressured by the local police into taking on two cases with possible ties to 1932 Berlin."
  • "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 Per̤n government. But Bernie doesn't 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 another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker, has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores, state-licensed murderers and torturers, so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?"@en
  • "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? Redolent with atmosphere, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-semitism under the Perons."
  • "1950. Bernie Gunther est en Argentine, où il retrouve le gratin des criminels nazis en exil. Une jeune fille est assassinée, et pour Bernie cette affaire ressemble étrangement à une autre non élucidée qui lui avait été confiée lorsqu'il était flic à Berlin sous la république de Weimar. Le chef de la police de Buenos Aires le sollicite pour l'enquête, et Bernie accepte sans enthousiasme...--[Memento]."
  • "British novelist Kerr's fifth Bernie Gunther thriller finds the German private detective in 1950 Argentina, where he has fled with other "Old Comrades" after his identity was compromised (see "The One from the Other"). Bernie's past as a police officer involuntarily absorbed into the SS continues to dog his heels. Recognized by Colonel Montalban of Juan Peron's secret police, he is forced into investigating an apparent lust murder and the disappearance of a wealthy young girl. The first case has eerie similarities to an unsolved homicide that Bernie investigated in Berlin in 1932; the second ties in with an attempt to seize Nazi plunder hidden in Swiss banks. But the situation becomes complicated as the detective risks his life to track down and interrogate several ex-Nazis involved in nefarious deeds. -- Library Journal."
  • "De Duitse privé-detective Bennie Gunther onderzoekt in het Buenos Aires van 1950, waar veel nazi-kopstukken hun toevlucht hebben gezocht, de moord op een jong Duits-Argentijns meisje."
  • "Bernie Gunther is in Argentina, circa 1950, where he - falsely accused of Nazi war crimes - has been offered a new life. But the tough detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low when a serial killer - whose crimes may reach back to Berlin before the war - is mutilating young girls."
  • "Detective Bernie Gunther flees to Perón-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war time activities and reluctantly investigates the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter."@en
  • "Bernie Gunther returns to trail a serial killer in 1950's Buenos Aires When he introduced Bernie Gunther in the original Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr immediately established himself as a thriller writer on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have won him comparisons with Alan Furst, John le Carre, and Graham Greene. A Quiet Flame finds Gunther in Argentina, circa 1950, where he- falsely accused of Nazi war crimes-has been offered a new life and a clean passport by the PerOn government. But the tough, fast-talking detective doesn't have the luxury of laying low when a serial killer- whose crimes may reach back to Berlin before the war-is mutilating young girls. Taut, gritty, and loaded with evocative historical detail, A Quiet Flame is among Kerr's best work yet."@en

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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Electronic book"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en

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  • "A quiet flame a bernie gunther novel"@en
  • "A Quiet Flame : a Bernie Gunther Novel"@en
  • "Una Llama misteriosa"
  • "Das letzte Experiment Thriller"
  • "A Quiet Flame"
  • "A quiet flame : [a Bernie Gunther mystery]"
  • "Een stille vlam"
  • "A quiet flame"
  • "A quiet flame"@en
  • "Das letzte Experiment : Roman"
  • "Das letzte Experiment"
  • "Une douce flamme"
  • "A fuoco lento"
  • "A fuoco lento"@it
  • "Una llama misteriosa"@es
  • "A quiet flame : a Bernie Gunther novel"
  • "A quiet flame : a Bernie Gunther novel"@en
  • "A quiet flame : a Bernie Gunther novel, #5"@en

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