The Lady from Zagreb, Philip Kerr
The Lady from Zagreb, Philip Kerr
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The Lady from Zagreb

Author: Philip Kerr

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/07/2015

Synopsis

In this Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series, former detective and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther is on the hunt for a beautiful femme fatale...
 
Berlin, 1942. Three players take the stage. The first, a gorgeous actress—the rising star of a giant German film company controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The second, the very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels—a close confidant of Hitler, ambitious schemer, and flagrant libertine. Finally, there's Bernie Gunther—a former Berlin homicide bull now forced to run errands at the Propaganda Minister’s command.

When Goebbels tasks Bernie with finding the woman the press have dubbed “the German Garbo,” his errand takes him from Zurich to Zagreb to the killing fields of Croatia. It is there that Bernie finds himself in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden agenda—perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no one.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nikos on February 20, 2016

Bernie Gunther από τους πιο συμπαθείς μου λογοτεχνικούς ήρωες. Η πρώτη εμφάνιση του τρομερού ντετέκτιβ έγινε το 1989 μέχρι το 1991, όπου γράφτηκε η περίφημη τριλογία του Βερολίνου, από τα καλύτερα αστυνομικά. Έκτοτε για 15 χρόνια δεν είχε συνέχεια παρά μόνο το 2006. Το παρόν βιβλίο ήταν το 10ο στη σ......more

Goodreads review by George on February 05, 2021

Πρώτη γνωριμία με Kerr και ήταν εκπληκτική! Τρομερός χαρακτήρας αυτός ο Γκούτερ, αυθεντικός, ωμός με ευαισθησίες. Με ενθουσιάζουν τα βιβλία που εξελίσσονται στις πιο δύσκολες εποχές της ανθρωπότητας και τοποθετούνται απέναντι στις φρικαλεότητες "ανθρώπων" όπως οι Ουστάσι. Ευχαριστούμε και για την ισ......more

Goodreads review by Alex on August 31, 2024

Hitler might have held Gutterer to be one of the most rhetorically gifted men in Germany but I was a grand master at faking sincerity. After all, I’d been doing it since 1933. The Lady from Zagreb, 10th in the series of fictional Berlin Detective Bernie Gunther novels set against historic events from......more

Goodreads review by Skorofido on August 02, 2021

Ο Μπέρνι Γκούντερ δεν είναι ο αγαπημένος μου ντεντέκτιβ αλλά τον διαβάζω… εάν έχεις ερπετικό εγκέφαλο, αυτά παθαίνεις… περισσότερο μου αρέσει η αναπαράσταση του κλίματος της εποχής (προναζιστική – ναζιστική Γερμανία) και η κυνικότητα του πρωταγωνιστή. Συνήθως όμως οι ιστορίες του Philip Kerr με μπερ......more

Goodreads review by Steven on May 05, 2015

THE LADY FROM ZAGREB is the tenth book in Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther series. Gunther a former homicide detective before the rise of Nazism, an ideology that he finds abhorrent, is a character in absorbing historical thrillers that are set in Germany in the 1930s, World War II, and the Cold War. Gu......more

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Praise for Philip Kerr

“Kerr is the only bona fide heir to Raymond Chandler.” —Jonathan Ames, Salon
 
“Bernie isn’t one of those detectives who gets to solve crimes and put things right. Instead, he just tries to behave decently in a world where the serial killers run the governments and history itself may be the biggest crime of all.” —John Powers, NPR’s “Fresh Air”
 
“On any continent, in any decade, no one does melancholy better than Bernie Gunther, and melancholy, after all, is the hard-boiled mystery fan’s emotion of choice.” —Booklist
 

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