Doodslied vir Duitsland: Philip Kerr Graffiti Boeke
Soek resultate: Philip Kerr
As 'n polisieman in Berlyn het inspekteur Bernie Günther reeds vroeg in die 1930's met boosheid kennis gemaak. Nou, in 1947, is die Tweede Wêreldoorlog verby en Bernie - 'n gesoute privaatspeurder - moet die moord op 'n Amerikaanse Nazi-jagter ondersoek. Maar daar is een gróót probleem: die vermeende moordenaar is een van Bernie se oudste vriende, 'n kollega uit sy Kripo-dae. Moet Bernie sy lojaliteit aan sy vriend bewys, of eerder seker maak dat reg en geregtigheid seëvier? Maar skuil daar nie dalk meer agter hierdie vreemde saak nie?
In Wene, 'n eens weelderige stad wat nou in puin lê na afloop van die oorlog, volg Bernie verskeie leidrade wat almal na een verdagte lei: 'n oud-Gestapo-hoof met 'n lys van wandade wat die vergrype van die oorlog na kinderspeletjies laat lyk … Doodslied vir Duitsland, die Afrikaanse vertaling van A German Requiem, is die laaste boek in Philip Kerr se Berlin Noir-trilogie, sy historiese speurreeks wat wêreldwyd 'n topverkoper is.
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came topower.
Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from the Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. Then the second series of murders begins…
France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail.Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory.But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet.