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Description edit
Striding across Europe through the killing fields of three decades-from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer's Germany in 1954, awash in duplicitous "allies" busily undermining one another-Field Gray reveals a world based on expediency, where the ends justify the means and no one can be... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Bernie Gunther: The protagonist, the detective
- Dona Marina: Owner of the largest and best brothel in Havana
- Melba Marrero: Being sought by the police in connection with the murder of a police captain
- Mendy: Bernie's contact in Santiago about the boat to take him to Haiti
- Captain Mackay: US Navy master-at-arms in Guantanamo
- Meyer Lansky: Underworld boss in Havana and also Bernie's boss
- Bill: One of the two FBI agents at the Castle Williams
- Mitch: The other FBi agent at the CastleWilliams
- Jerry Silverman: Captain of OCCWC in Landsberg where Bernie was being held as war criminal
- Jonathan Earp: Sergeant of OCCWC in Landsberg
- Adolf Hitler: Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich).
- Otto Ohlendorf: SS-Gruppenführer and head of the Domestic Intelligence in Third Reich
- Reinhard Heydrich: SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office (including the SD, Gestapo and Kripo)
- Franz Walter Stahlecker: SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei and commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A
- Heinrich Himmler: Reichsführer-SS
- Arthur Nebe: Commander of Einsatzgruppe B in the eastern front
- Waldemar Klingelhöfer: SS-Obersturmbannführer, in overall charge of the antipartisan hunts in Minsk
- Erwin Schulz: SS-Sturmbannführer, commander of Einsatzkommando 5
- Bruno Streckenbach: SS-Brigadeführer, head of the Personnel of the RSHA
- Ernst Biberstein: SS-Obersturmbannführer, commander of Einsatzgruppe C
- Walter Hänsch: SS-Obersturmbannführer, commander of Einsatzkommando 4b
- Erich Naumann: SS-Brigadeführer, commander of Einsatzgruppe B
- Hermann Priess: The commanding officer of the 1st SS-Panzerkorps at Malmedy, during the Battle of the Bulge
- Paul Anlauf: The most hated cop in Berlin among the communists
- Erich Mielke: The communist who is being looked after for the murders of Paul Anlauf & Franz Lenck
- Renata Matter: French maid at Hotel du Louvre
- Erich Ziemer: Responsible for the murders of Paul Anlauf & Franz Lenck
- Walter Scellenberg: SS Foreign Intelligence Service and Heydrich's close friend
- Paul Kestner: Hauptmann who denounced Gunther
- Nikolaus Willms: Bernie Gunther's companion during his train ride to Paris in 1940
- Karl Bömelburg: Major, Paul Kestner's collegue in Paris
- Helmut Knochen: Colonel who was assigned to help Bernie Gunther to find Erich Mielke
- Herbert Hagen: Colonel Helmut Knochen's aide
- Herschel Grynszpan: German-Polish Jew, who murdered Ernst vow Rath in Paris in 1938
- Joseph Goebbels: Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945
- Eva Kemmerich: Woman from the camp at Gurs who is looking for her husband
- Oltramare: French Chief Inspector helping Bernie Gunther in France
- Otto Horcher: Owner of Maxim's in Paris and a good friend of Bernie Gunther
- General Schaumberg: Deputy commander of Berlin
- Konrad Metelmann: A young lieutenant whom Bernie Gunther befriended in Voronezh
- Ivan Yefremovich Pospelov: Bernie Gunther's friend in K.A.
- Wolfgang Gebhardt: The most unpopular German in camp K.A
- Colonel Mrugowski: The K.A. Camp director
- Walter Bingel: Berliner whom Berni Gunther met on the train ride to Johannesgeorgenstadt
- General Klause: Senior German Officer at Johannesgeorgenstadt KZ
- Major Weltz: MVD officer at Johannesgeorgenstadt KZ
- Lieutenant Rascher: MVD officer at Johannesgeorgenstadt KZ
- Edgard de Boudel: French SS-Charlemagne
- Elisabeth Dehler: Bernie Gunther's love interest in Berlin
Setting & Locations edit
- Havana
- Santiago
- Guantanamo
- Castle Williams
- New York
- Landsberg Prison
- Minsk
- Paris
- Berlin
- Hotel du Louvre
- Le Bourget
- Gurs
- Le Vernet
- Königsberg
- Voronezh
- Krasno-Armeesk
- Johannesgeorgenstadt
- Hannover
- Göttingen
- Friedland
- Frankfurt
- Helmstedt
- West Germany
- France
- Russia
- Cuba
- Moscow
- Soviet Union
- Toulouse
- Stasi
- Stalingrad
- Lutétia
- Savostin
- America
- Europe
- Dachau
- Hamburg
- Haiti
- Vienna
- Ukraine
- Dresden
- Biarritz
- Gestapo
- Krasnogorsk
- Pretzsch
- Poland
- Bülowplatz
- Kripo
- Sakhalin
- Munich
- Indo-china
- Spain
- Pension Esebeck
First Sentence edit
"That Englishman with Ernestina," she said, looking down at the luxuriously appointed public room.
Table of Contents edit
Untitled 40 Chapters
Series & Lists edit
This is book 7 of 8 in Bernard Gunther. (standard series)
Preceded by If the Dead Rise Not, and followed by Prague Fatale.
This book is in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Philip Kerr (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Country: US
Publication Date: October 28th, 2010
ISBN: 9780399157417
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
Country: US
Publication Date: October 28th, 2010
ISBN: 9780399157417
Page Count: 448
Awards edit
- eDunnit Award (2010: The Best Crime Fiction ebook, Winner)
- Edgar Award (Finalist, 2012: Best Novel)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR6061.E784F54 2011
- Dewey: 823.914
Subjects edit
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