Bernie Gunther Reeks

Deze serie volgt een privédetective die zich een weg baant door de turbulente decennia van Nazi-Duitsland en het naoorlogse Europa. Met een onverschrokken blik op de realiteit onderzoekt hij zaken die hem naar de donkerste hoeken van de samenleving leiden. De serie biedt een scherpe kritiek op politieke regimes en de morele complexiteit van die tijd, terwijl de protagonist vecht om te overleven en zijn integriteit te behouden.

Greeks bearing gifts: A Bernie Gunther thriller

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March Violets
Philip Kerr
272bladzijden
10 uur lezen
3,8(12219)Tarief
Discover the first crime novel in the late Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series - Berlin Noir - set in Hitler's Germany during the 1930s . . . Winter, 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed, their home burned. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. He turns to Bernhard Gunther, a private eye and former cop. As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau . . . Stylishly written and powerfully evocative, Kerr's crime classic transports readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduces a private eye in the great tradition of Hammett and Chandler. 'Wonderfully sharp and satirical' Times 'An impressive debut' Guardian 'Fast-paced, laconic, unpredictable, and witty' Evening Standard 'For Christmas, I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes, Guardian
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The Pale Criminal
A Bernie Gunther Novel
Philip Kerr
288bladzijden
11 uur lezen
4,0(7329)Tarief
Set in 1930s Berlin, the story follows hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther as he confronts a chilling serial killer who is wreaking havoc in the city. This gripping mystery delves into the dark underbelly of society, showcasing Gunther's relentless pursuit of justice amidst a backdrop of political tension and moral ambiguity. The novel promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats with its intricate plot and rich historical context.
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A German Requiem
Philip Kerr
320bladzijden
12 uur lezen
4,0(6346)Tarief
Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.
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De Een Van De Ander
Philip Kerr
4,0(348)Tarief
In het Duitsland van 1949 krijgt een detective gewetensbezwaren bij het opsporen van nazimisdadigers.
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A quiet flame
Philip Kerr
448bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,1(281)Tarief
'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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Als de doden niet herrijzen
Een Bernie Gunther thriller - Heruitgave
Herman van der Ploeg
446bladzijden
16 uur lezen
4,0(196)Tarief
Berlijn 1934. De nazi's zijn anderhalf jaar aan de macht en de stad bereidt zich voor op de Olympische Spelen van 1936. Sinds zijn gedwongen ontslag bij de politie is Bernie Gunther als privédetective in dienst van het beroemde Adlon hotel. Hier raakt hij na de ontdekking van twee lijken, dat van een zakenman en een Joodse bokser, betrokken bij de activiteiten van twee hotelgasten. De een is een linkse journaliste die Amerika wil bewegen de Spelen in Berlijn te boycotten; de ander een Duits-Joodse gangster, die de Spelen wil gebruiken om zichzelf en de maffia te verrijken. Bernie komt op het spoor van een veelomvattend netwerk, dat uit is op de grote sommen geld die de nazi's bereid zijn te spenderen om daarmee het 'nieuwe' Duitsland aan de wereld te kunnen tonen. Het is een complot dat zijn effect pas twintig jaar later sorteert, in het Cuba van voor de revolutie.
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Grijs verleden
Philip Kerr
416bladzijden
15 uur lezen
4,2(163)Tarief
'Een man werkt niet voor zijn vijanden, tenzij hij weinig te kiezen heeft.' Aldus Bernie Gunther. Het is 1954 en Bernie is op Cuba, waar hij aan een gevaarlijke klus probeert te ontkomen. Hij chartert een bootje, maar helaas wordt hij opgepikt door de Amerikaanse kustwacht en belandt voor de zoveelste keer in een gevangeniscel. Na uitgebreid verhoor wordt hij naar Berlijn gebracht. Daar krijgt hij de keuze voorgelegd tussen spioneren voor de Franse geheime dienst of veroordeeld worden voor moord. Zijn nieuwe baan is eenvoudig. Hij moet krijgsgevangenen verwelkomen die naar Duitsland terugkeren, en daarbij uitkijken naar een specifiek persoon: een Franse oorlogsmisdadiger en lid van de Franse SS, die zich heeft uitgegeven voor een Duitse Wehrmacht-officier. De Fransen willen niets liever dan op meedogenloze wijze afrekenen met deze man. Maar intussen dreigt Bernies eigen verleden als krijgsgevangene hem op volkomen onverwachte wijze in te halen.
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Prague fatale
Philip Kerr
4,1(159)Tarief
'The Prague Fatale' is Bernie Gunther's eighth outing. Set in Prague in 1942, it delivers all the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. It is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.
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A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr
4,2(96)Tarief
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau – weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that’s now a rarity. When human remains are found deep in the Katyn Forest, Bernie is sent to investigate. Rumour has it that this mass grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians. For Josef Goebbels, proof of Russian involvement is sure to destroy the Western Alliance, giving Germany a chance to reverse its devastating losses. But supposing the truth is far more damaging to the German cause? It’s Bernie Gunther’s job to give Goebbels what he needs. But when there’s nothing left for Gunther to lose, the compulsion to speak the truth becomes ever stronger…
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The lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
4,0(3158)Tarief
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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The Other Side of Silence
Philip Kerr
352bladzijden
13 uur lezen
3,9(106)Tarief
The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.
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Prussian Blue
Philip Kerr
4,3(219)Tarief
France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory. But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet.
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Greeks bearing gifts: A Bernie Gunther thriller
Philip Kerr
4,1(132)Tarief
Will it be unlucky thirteen for Bernie Gunther? Find out in the latest installment in this internationally bestselling and acclaimed series. LEE CHILD calls Bernie Gunther 'one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' TOM HANKS says 'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' ALAN FURST calls Philip Kerr 'one of the greatest master story-tellers in English'
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Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther thriller
Philip Kerr
4,0(3114)Tarief
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife.Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer.Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...

Die Berlin-Trilogie
Feuer in Berlin / Im Sog der dunklen Mächte / Alte Freunde - neue Feinde
Philip Kerr
1072bladzijden
38 uur lezen
3,6(19)Tarief
Berlin Noir – Philip Kerrs phantastische Thrillertrilogie aus der deutschen Vergangenheit In seiner Berlin-Trilogie um den Privatdetektiv Bernhard Gunther gelingt es Philip Kerr, die schmutzig-düstere Atmosphäre des Dritten Reichs und der Berliner Nachkriegszeit in der Form eines spannenden Kriminalromans heraufzubeschwören. Geschickt verwebt er die historischen Ereignisse und Protagonisten mit seinen Kriminalgeschichten – eine atemberaubende Mischung. «Kerr ist die europäische Krimi Entdeckung der letzten Jahre.» RADIO BREMEN
Berlijnse Trilogie
Philip Kerr
4,3(6881)Tarief
Bundeling van de drie eerste boeken over privédetective Bernie Gunther, spelend in het vooroorlogse Berlijn en het na-oorlogse Wenen.
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