num_pages: 455
description: An instant classic in the Bernie Gunther series with storytelling that is fresher and more vivid than ever. Berlin 1934: The Nazis have secured the 1936 Olympiad for the city but are facing foreign resistance. Hitler and Avery Brundage the head of the U.S. Olympic Committee have connived to soft-pedal Nazi anti- Semitism and convince America to participate. Bernie Gunther now the house detective at an upscale Berlin hotel is swept into this world of international corruption and dangerous double-dealing caught between the warring factions of the Nazi apparatus.Havana 1954: Batista aided by the CIA has just seized power; Castro is in prison; and the American Mafia is quickly gaining a stranglehold on the city's exploding gaming and prostitution industries. Bernie who has been unceremoniously kicked out of Buenos Aires has resurfaced in Cuba with a new life seemingly one of routine and relative peace. But Bernie discovers that he truly cannot outrun the burden of his past: He soon collides with a vicious killer from his Berlin days who is mysteriously murdered not long afterward-and an old lover who may be the murderer.If the Dead Rise Not is everything fans have come to expect from Philip Kerr: twisted intrigue tight plotting quick-witted one-liners a hang-by-your-thumbs ending and most significant a richer wiser Bernie Gunther.
language: English
title: If The Dead Rise Not
publisher: Quercus