A quiet flame
By: Philip Kerr
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Series: Bernie Gunther novel
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780399155307
Subjects: Politics and government; Private investigators; Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character); Girls; Crimes against; Fiction; Undercover operations; Nazis; History
Description: A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the Per̤n government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker, has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores, state-licensed murderers and torturers, so why couldn't a serial killer be among them?
Notes: "A Marian Wood book."

Originally published: London : Quercus, 2008.