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Au milieu des années 1950, Bernie Gunther est l'estimé concierge du Grand-Hôtel de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, sous une identité d'emprunt qui le met à l'abri des représailles et des poursuites (il figure sur les listes de criminels nazis recherchés). Mais son ancienne activité de détective et son pays lui manquent. Pour tromper son ennui, il joue au bridge avec un couple d'Anglais et le directeur italien du casino de Nice.

C'est dans le Berlin de 1947 que l'on retrouve Bernie Gunther, le détective familier aux connaisseurs des premiers volumes de la trilogie. Un Berlin cauchemardesque, livré au cynisme des "Puissances Alliées" qui se partagent la capitale anéantie. Une ville où tout est bon pour tenter de survivre, alors que la "dénazification" entraîne une valse des identités.

A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous propaganda minister - a close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin homicide bull, now forced to do favors for Joseph Goebbels at the propaganda minister's command.

It is 1956, and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. Which is why Bernie, as Christoph, finds himself in Athens investigating a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war.

Berlijn, 1928, de nadagen van de Weimarrepubliek kort voordat Hitler en de nazi's aan de macht komen. Bernard Weiss, hoofd van de Berlijnse Kriminalpolizei, vraagt de jonge rechercheur Bernie Gunther om bij de KIA te komen - het hoofdbureau voor moordzaken. Bernies eerste opdracht is een meervoudige moordzaak. In een paar weken zijn vier prostituees op gruwelijke wijze gedood. Bernie heeft zich nog nauwelijks in de zaak kunnen verdiepen wanneer er een vijfde prostituee wordt vermoord.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2034. Der Staat hat die völlige Kontrolle über Leben und Tod, der geheimnisvolle "Winston" wacht über alle. Die 16-jährige Florence arbeitet aus voller Überzeugung für den sogenannten Senior Service, dessen Aufgabe es ist, ältere Menschen zu enttarnen und zu töten, die sich weigern, freiwillig aus dem Leben zu scheiden, um Platz für die Jüngeren zu machen. Doch dann verliebt sich Florence in Eric. Und sie beginnt, das System in Frage zu stellen.

It's 1928, and Berlin is a city on the edge of chaos, where nothing is truly verboten. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose, and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on because the people at the top have noticed him - they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.

London, 2013, and the city is battling an epidemic of serial killings - even with the widespread government use of DNA detection, brain-imaging, and the 'punitive coma'. Detective Isadora 'Jake' Jacowicz is hunting a murderer, code-named 'Wittgenstein', who has taken it upon himself to eliminate anyone who has tested positive for a tendency towards violent behaviour - even if they've never committed a crime. His intellectual brilliance is matched only by his homicidal madness.

America, 1960. In Washington, DC, John F. Kennedy has just been elected president. In Havana, Fidel Castro has been in office for a year, and with Cold War tensions rapidly heating up and the Soviets leading the space race, the thought of a Communist leader so close to home is already raising American blood pressure. Anti-communist fever is rampant in the USA, with a paranoid establishment seeing reds under every bed. Nevertheless, the decision to snuff out the threat of Castro by hiring Tom Jefferson, America's best assassin, to kill him comes from an unusual quarter: the Mafia.

Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps - whatever they are - will be decided. Into this nest of double- and triple-dealing steps Willard Mayer, OSS agent and FDR's envoy to the conference. His job is to secure the peace that the USA and Hitler now crave. The stakes couldn't be higher.

Houston publishes so many books a year that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a ghost team; writers, agents, publishers. So when he takes a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him.

Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the FBI. He is a religious man but he’s coming close to losing his faith due to the nature of his job. Gil starts to investigate a series of unexplained deaths, and as the evidence mounts, it becomes apparent that they have been killed through prayer. His new-found atheism is severely challenged, and he finds his own life is next on the line.

Skillfully weaving history with mystery, Philip Kerr sets this thrilling story in the 1696 Tower of London, where Sir Isaac Newton, warden of the Royal Mint (a post he actually held), and his apprentice Christopher Ellis (also a real person) track down a counterfeiting ring and, as the body count increases, a murderer. "An illuminating, often crackling exploration into the mysteries of science, mathematics, religion, and human nature," raves Booklist in a starred review.

In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakened economy. Armed with Newton’s superior intellect and Ellis’ skill with a sword, the new partners seem primed to solve the case. 

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD.

'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther, when he finds himself working for French Intelligence - it was either that or hang for murder. His job is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to find a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen.

Côte d'Azur, 1956: Bernie Gunther arbeitet noch immer als Concierge im Grand Hôtel Cap Ferrat. Dort bekommt er unverhofft Besuch von Erich Mielke, dem künftigen Minister für Staatssicherheit in der DDR, der einen Auftrag für Bernie hat. Er soll nach London reisen, um eine englische Agentin aus dem Weg zu räumen - eine alte Bekannte von Bernie. Obwohl er selbst von der Dame betrogen wurde, hat Bernie keinen Augenblick vor, diesen Auftrag tatsächlich auszuführen. Stattdessen flieht er quer durch Europa. Immer auf seinen Fersen: Friedrich Korsch, ein Stasi-Agent.

München, 1957. Bernie Gunther ist bei einer Versicherungsgesellschaft gelandet. Er wird nach Athen geschickt, um die Forderungen eines Versicherten namens Witzel zu prüfen, dessen Schiff vor der Küste gesunken ist. Bernie findet heraus, dass das Schiff einst einem griechischen Juden gehörte, der nach Auschwitz deportiert wurde. Die Sache ist für ihn klar: ein Racheakt.

Buenos Aires, 1950. Privatdetektiv Bernie Gunther soll für Peróns Geheimpolizei die vermisste Fabienne von Bader ausfindig machen. Bei seiner Suche nach dem fünfzehnjährigen Mädchen stößt er in der Wüste auf ein verlassenes Lager, das seine schlimmsten Befürchtungen weckt. Immer mehr gerät Gunther unter Druck, denn nicht nur die Perónistas sind hinter dem Mädchen her. Zu welchem Schatz ist Fabienne der Schlüssel? Und welche Rolle spielt die schöne Jüdin Anna? Bald steht Gunther im Fadenkreuz der verschiedensten Mächte.

Privatermittler Bernie Gunther kann seinen Ruhestand auf Kuba nicht genießen, denn seine Widersacher lassen ihm keine Ruhe. Gerade will er die Insel in Richtung Haiti ver­lassen, da entführt die US Navy im Auftrag der CIA sein Boot und bringt ihn erst nach Guantánamo, dann ins Militärgefängnis bei New York. Von der Anschuldigung, ein Kriegsverbrecher zu sein, wird er freigesprochen, aber nur unter der Bedingung, dass er für die CIA Stasi-Funktionär Erich Mielke aufstöbert.