Hitler is history, but Bernie Gunther, the SS guy with a heart of
gold, is alive and well, and chasing dirty rats in Argentina.World
War II didn't quite go the way it was supposed to - the Third Reich
having lasted noticeably less than 1,000 years - but the Nazis are
still in there pitching. The setting has shifted to Argentina, that
happy haven for Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele and the like-minded.
From this hate-mongering group, exempt steel-shelled, mushy-hearted
Bernhard Gunther, famous once as the policeman Berlin's malefactors
loved to hate. True enough, Bernie eventually left the force to put
in some obligatory time among the goose-steppers, but what's a man
to do when he's a born survivalist? The SS or the concentration
camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka, etc.) were the sole choices available
even to an iconic sleuth whose case-cracking record had long been
the stuff of headlines. " 'You were a hero of mine,' " says Colonel
Montalban, Argentina's top cop, as Bernie modestly averts his eyes.
Bernie senses that what Montalban has planned for him will
seriously interfere with his own plans. Having arrived in Argentina
the hard way - consider an unpleasant detour to a Russian prison
camp - Bernie now regards himself as a noncombatant. Just find this
missing German girl for me, says Montalban, adding reassuringly
that it's the kind of case Bernie has always excelled at. But
somehow Bernie is not reassured, since over Montalban's siren song,
he hears another kind of rhythm - the sound of jackboots marching
toward him.Warts and all - Kerr makes little attempt to hide them -
Bernie Gunther (The One from the Other, 2006, etc.) remains
endearing, entertaining and eminently forgivable. (Kirkus Reviews)
'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?
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