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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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5 out of 5 stars
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Football manager Scott Manson needs a new job, but finding one in the star-studded world of international football isn't easy. A new position in Shanghai turns out to be part of an elaborate sting operation - and in Barcelona, he's not hired as a football manager but as a detective. Barca's star player is missing, and Scott has a month to track him down. As Scott follows the trail from Paris to Antigua, he encounters the rotten heart of the beautiful game....
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1 out of 5 stars
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one of the worst books I read lately
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Quite Short
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Prague Fatale
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Philip Kerr’s thrilling mystery series starring private detective Bernie Gunther has been hailed as “one of the great historical crime series” by Bookmarks Magazine. Set in 1941, Prague Fatale follows Gunther as he investigates a murder at the country estate of his old boss, SD member Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich was throwing a dinner party for senior German officers when the victim was discovered - the body mysteriously locked in a room from the inside.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another Great Bernie Gunther Mystery!
- By Avid Books and TV on 05-24-12
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Greeks Bearing Gifts
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- By: Philip Kerr
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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It is 1956, and Bernie Gunther has a new name (Christoph Ganz), a clean passport, a chip on his shoulder, and a menial low-paying job in Munich. And then an old friend arrives to repay a debt. He encourages Bernie to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company. Which is why Bernie, as Christoph, finds himself in Athens investigating a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Series gets better and better
- By Rena on 04-10-18
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Field Gray
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- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Philip Kerr crafts a thrilling chapter from his critically acclaimed Bernie Gunther series. In Field Gray, Bernie finds himself imprisoned in 1954—and told he can either work for French intelligence or he can hang. Accepting his new job, Bernie begins interviewing POWs returning from Germany. And things get interesting when he meets a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Way too much of a good thing... Bernie as Zelig
- By DanBudda on 11-24-15
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A Quiet Flame
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Philip Kerr’s intricate novels featuring former Berlin homicide detective Bernie Gunther have earned ahallowed place in the hearts of mystery fans. It’s 1950, and Bernie has arrived in Argentina seeking asylum after being falsely identified as a Nazi war criminal. There he investigates the murder of a wealthy banker’s daughter ina case reminiscent of one he worked in Germany 18 years before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May be his best
- By Greg on 08-09-12
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Hand of God
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Scott Manson and London City are in Athens battling for the UEFA Champion's League title. The situation in Athens is tense, and some of City's players are so unpopular in Greece they've been assigned bodyguards. Karaiskakis Stadium is packed to the rafters when tragedy strikes, Christoph Bundchen collapses and dies mid-match. Is it a heart attack? Or something more sinister?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A compelling listen... with an unsatisfactory end.
- By K R D on 04-21-18
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The Shot
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Philip Kerr has won widespread critical acclaim for this imaginative reworking of the mythology surrounding the John F. Kennedy assassination. The Shot offers fresh twists and turns while capturing the colorful and turbulent America of 1960. Tom Jefferson is a hitman - and a good one. He’s just taken down a former Nazi from 150 yards away. His talent is noticed by the Mob, which is fresh off rigging the presidential election for Kennedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerr is always solid in his supposition: It's all about the Story.
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A German Requiem
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Bernie Gunther had his first brush with evil as a policeman in 1930s Berlin and came to know it intimately as a private eye under the Nazis, when each case drew him deeper into the enormities of the regime. Now the war is over and Gunther's in Vienna, trying to clear an old friend of the murder of an American officer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a great german whodunnit, cont'd
- By David on 01-13-09
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The One from the Other
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Munich, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing war criminals, and all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. It is also a place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in their flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent plot
- By Linda on 06-18-08
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If the Dead Rise Not
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- Unabridged
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The best-selling author of 20 novels, Philip Kerr has won a devoted following - and there are none more ardent than those who devour his Bernie Gunther series. In 1934, Bernie found himself in Berlin, where he was caught up in intrigue surrounding Hitler, America, and the upcoming Olympiad. Two decades later, Bernie surfaces in Havana. But an old associate has appeared there as well - and might spell trouble of a decidedly deadly nature.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not the same w/o John Lee narrating, but ok story
- By Avid Books and TV on 06-07-11
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Pont Neuf
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- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,485
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4,991
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Can a young war correspondent find herself and follow her heart? In this work of historical fiction, 20-something Annabella “Annie” March arrives in France in 1944 intending to write about the war. Soon, however, Annie begins to distance herself from her sometimes-mentor, sometimes-rival - the great Martha Gellhorn - and Gellhorn’s larger-than-life husband, the novelist Ernest Hemingway. She turns to photography in the hopes of making her own name and, to her delight, discovers that images come more easily than words.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good story, lousy narration
- By Rosalind on 12-13-19
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The Pale Criminal
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The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin - until he turned freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, The Pale Criminal is noir writing at its blackest and best.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Esxcellent Historical Fiction; Gripping ...
- By Old Hippy on 07-02-09
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The Night Fire
- By: Michael Connelly
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- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,852
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Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now that mentor, John Jack Thompson, is dead, but after his funeral his widow hands Bosch a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Excellent Narration !!
- By R. Pontiflet on 10-30-19
Publisher's Summary
Houston publishes so many books a year that he can't possibly write them himself. He has a ghost team; writers, agents, publishers. So when he takes a year out to write something of quality, a novel that will win prizes, a lot of people stand to lose their livelihoods. Now Houston, the prime suspect in his wife's murder, has disappeared. He could be anywhere and there are many who'd like to find him.
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- John Tipton
- 02-21-15
Great mystery/thriller - great performance
Great story. Really enjoyed the twists and the inherent irony. The reading was one of the best I've heard so far.
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- Alex
- 03-15-17
Add Kerr to your list. Do it now.
Kerr meters out the suspense, keeping things on the boil all the time, none of it spoiled by formula and none of it predictable. He is a deft hand at dialog and the plot is tight and plausible. No heroic papering over holes at the end. Well, much less than I'm used to, and much more artfully done.
After adding Kerr, add Nigel Carrington. He really brings this book to life, and given the abundance of dialog of this book, good narration is particularly important. Are all Kerr's books like this? Don't know, this is my first. But I'm eager to jump into March Violets to find out.
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- kiwijase
- 12-31-19
First non Bernie book I've tried
Huge fan of The Bernie Gunther series and not disappointed by this title at all
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- CJFLA
- 12-07-15
Definitely not his best
Would you try another book from Philip Kerr and/or Nigel Carrington?
Really enjoy Philip Kerr's novels, especially the Bernie Gunther series. This book, though, is lacking. The story is ok but nothing special. The narration, however, is exceptional.
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- Maggie
- 03-25-15
Oh dear
Not his best. Almost gave up a few times. Bring back Gunther as a young man perhaps . I was disappointed
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