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Resumen del libro

It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence. He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned in the Isle of Pines. There he meets Castro, and a French intelligence officer, Thibaud, who liaises between the CIA and French intelligence.

Exhaustively questioned by Thibaud, Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin and another prison cell with a proposition: work for the French or hang for murder. Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany. One of these is Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS, who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer.

The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. 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.

Biografía del autor

p strong PHILIP KERR /strong <br>(Edimburgo, 1956 Londres, 2018)<br> p <br>Autor que encontró la fórmula mágica de la novela negra histórica para un público exigente: poner toneladas de erudición al servicio de un personaje carismático y moralmente incólume, el detective Bernie Gunther, y filtrarlo todo por una óptica cínica. Cada título de la serie es una lección de un meticuloso experto en la República de Weimar, el Tercer Reich y la posguerra, y también un relato lleno de aventuras, humor negro y réplicas dignas de su admirado Philip Marlowe.<br> p Ganador del Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca en 2009 por em Si los muertos no resucitan /em , también firmó diversos thrillers más allá de la serie Bernie Gunther, como em Plegarias, El arte del crimen, La paz de Hitler, Esaú, Una investigación filosófica /em o em Mercado de invierno. /em <br>