Philip Kerr
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"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as "the best crime novels around today." A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and flagrant libertine. And Bernie Gunther, former Berlin...
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Working in the Wehrmacht's War Crime Bureau of 1943 at the behest of an old friend, sardonic Berlin cop Bernie Gunther struggles to find proof of Russian responsibility for a mass shooting of Polish army officers in the hopes of destabilizing the WesternAlliance.
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"New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the criminal gangs, the perverse sex clubs, and the laundry...
4) Prayer
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Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Special Agent Gil Martins investigates domestic terrorism for the Houston FBI. He is a religious man who is close to losing his faith; the very nature of his job has led him to question the existence of a God who could allow the things that Gil sees every day.
But Gil' s wife Ruth doesn' t see things the same way and his crisis of faith provokes a fracture in their marriage. Gil' s world is breaking apart.
At the same time, Gil starts to investigate
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Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Bernie Gunther, once Commissar of the Third Reich, is on the run from Erich Mielke, the deputy head of Stasi, and reminisces about a case he investigated seventeen years earlier in which someone shot an engineer on the terrace of Hitler's private residence.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the...
9) Field gray
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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It's 1954 and Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin to work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany and snag one Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him -- in a way he could never have foreseen.
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Children of the lamp volume 1
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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When twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John discover that they are descended from a long line of djinn, their mother sends them away to their Uncle Nimrod, who takes them to Cairo where he starts to teach them about their extraordinary powers.
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Children of the lamp volume 3
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Twelve-year-old djinn twins Philippa and John and their friend Dybbuk have further adventures as they travel the world in search of a priceless talisman.
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Bernhard Gunther mysteries volume 6
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Twenty years after being embroiled in the Nazi regime of 1934 Berlin, detective Bernie Gunther pursues a quieter life in Havana but is thwarted by an encounter with a killer from his past who is murdered at the same time a former lover reappears.
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Children of the lamp volume 6
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old djinn twins John and Philippa travel from the Himalayas to Yellowstone National Park seeking to uncover and protect five holy men before the wicked djinn responsible for upsetting the balance of the world's luck finds them.
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Children of the lamp volume 2
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Twelve-year-old twins Philippa and John have more adventures when they become involved in an international adventure involving the Blue Djinn, the supreme arbiter of all Djinn.
16) Prague fatale
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Marian Wood Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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In 1941 Prague, private detective Bernie Gunther must sort through a roomful of murderous high-ranking Nazi Party members to discover who killed a young member of Reinhard Heydrich's staff.
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Children of the lamp volume 7
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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While volcanoes spew golden lava around the world, djinn twins John and Philippa, with their parents, Uncle Nimrod, and Groanin, face evil more powerful than ever before when they try to stop the wicked djinn trying to rob the grave of Genghis Khan.
18) A German requiem
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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In the wreckage of postwar Berlin, PI Bernie Gunther--in his third appearance--accepts coal for payment and reluctantly takes on a case for Russian Col. Palkovich Poroshin, one of the despised "Ivans." Asked to prove black marketeer Emil Becker innocent of the death of U.S. Counterintelligence Corps Capt. Edward Linden, Gunther leaves Berlin (and his unfaithful wife) for Vienna, where the incarcerated Becker insists he had been set up while delivering...
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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Mercenary Tom Jefferson is headed for the assassination of Fidel Castro until a corrupt FBI acquaintance introduces him to "explosive information ... and the word is out that he's no longer gunning for Fidel Castro, but for Jack Kennedy."--Jacket.
20) A five year plan
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
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English
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A shipboard romance in the Atlantic between a gangster and a woman FBI agent. He is there to hijack a shipment of Mafia money, she is after a cargo of cocaine. Neither knows who the other really is.