Title: If the dead rise not
Subtitle: a Bernie Gunther novel
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.
Subjects: Organized Crime, Private investigators, Private investigators in fiction, Germany in fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Nazis in fiction, Nazis, History, Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical, general, Berlin (germany), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Gunther, bernhard (fictitious character), fiction, Havana (cuba), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Jews, Social conditions
Places: Germany, Havana (Cuba), Berlin (Germany)
People: Bernhard Gunther (Fictitious character)
Time periods: 1933-1954, 1933-1945