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A Quiet Flame (Bernie Gunther, #5) by Philip Kerr, Philip Kerr is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history. A Quiet Flame opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has always despised, by promises of a new life and a clean passport from the Pern government. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of settling into his new home and lying low. He is soon pressured by the local police into taking on a case in which a girl has turned up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another--the daughter of a wealthy German banker--has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores--state-licensed murderers and torturers--so why couldn't a serial killer be among them? But Argentina, just like Germany, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to he
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- Author
- Philip Kerr, Philip Kerr
- Publisher
- Quercus Children's Books
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781847243560
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Thriller, Other Thrillers Categories
- Rating
- 4.11 / 5 (2,722 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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