Metropolis

Resumen del libro

Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin.

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon.

Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks.

All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife.

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 a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect.

The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong PHILIP KERRx{0026}lt;/strong x{0026}lt;br / (Edimburgo, 1956 x{0026} x02013; Londres, 2018)x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;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.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Ganador del Premio RBA de Novela Policiaca en 2009 por x{0026}lt;em Si los muertos no resucitanx{0026}lt;/em , también firmó diversos thrillers más allá de la serie Bernie Gunther, comox{0026}lt;em Plegarias, El arte del crimen, La paz de Hitler, Esaú, Una investigación filosóficax{0026}lt;/em ox{0026}lt;em Mercado de invierno.x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/p