A Quiet Flame

Philip Kerr

ISBN 10: 1847243568 / ISBN 13: 9781847243560

Published by Quercus, London, 2008

About this Item

Signed first edition. Quercus, London 2008. - Another Bernie Gunther Mystery - "Bernie Gunther, Berlin's hardest boiled private eye, returns in this his latest outing. Moving the plot from pre-war Germany to the dangers of Argentina in 1950 and the post-war world of Hitler's most notorious war criminals, Kerr yet again a powerful, compelling thriller." (from the front flap of the dust jacket) Book is in very good+ condition with some mild dusting to the edges of the text block. All pages are bright and clean. Dust jacket is in near fine condition, not price-clipped. DJ is now protected by a transparent archival sleeve.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Quiet Flame
• Publisher: Quercus, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847243568
• ISBN 13: 9781847243560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Printing: 1. Druck
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 0.9 kilograms
• Signed: Signatur des Verfassers

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Synopsis

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 Per?n 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?

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 "the right kind of hero for his time--and ours."

About the Author

Philip Kerr is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, two of which—Field Gray and The Lady from Zagreb—were finalists for the Edgar® Award for Best Novel. Kerr has also won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. As P. B. Kerr, he is the author of the much-loved young adult fantasy series Children of the Lamp.