Sunday, November 06, 2011

Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel



Author: Kerr, Philip

Title: Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel

Published: New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011

Description: 435 p. ; 24 cm.

Call Number: PR6061 E784 F54 2011

Note(s): "A Marian Wood book."

Summary: 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

Subject(s):
  • Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Private investigators -- Fiction
  • Mystery fiction
  • Spy stories
  • Historical fiction
Review(s):
  • BETHUNE, BRIAN. "Midnight in the garden of evil." Maclean's 124, no. 18 (May 16, 2011): 143
  • Keymer, David. "Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel." Library Journal 136, no. 5 (March 15, 2011): 108-109
  • "Field Gray." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 8 (February 21, 2011): 110
Read: July 22, 2011