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Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther novel
- Title
- Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr.
- Author
- Kerr, Philip
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-6650 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 368 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the criminal gangs, the perverse sex clubs, and the laundry list of human corruption. It's 1928 and Berlin is a city on the edge of chaos, where nothing is truly verboten. But soon a new wave of shockingly violent murders sweeps up society's most vulnerable, prostitutes and wounded ex-soldiers begging on the streets. As Bernie Gunther sets out to make sense of multiple murders with different MOs in a city that knows no limits, he must face the fact that his own police HQ is not immune. The Nazi party has begun to infiltrate the Alex, Berlin's central office, just as the shaky Weimar government makes a last, desperate attempt to control a nation edging toward to the Third Reich. It seems like the only escape for most Berliners is the theater and Bernie's no exception. As he gets deeper into the city's sordid underground network, he seeks comfort with a make-up artist who is every bit a match for his quick wit and increasingly sardonic view of the world. But even this space can't remain untouched, not with this pervasive feeling that everything is for sale in Berlin if you're man enough to kill for it"--
- Series Statement
- A Bernie Gunther novel
- Kerr, Philip. Bernie Gunther novel.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- "A Marian Wood book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-6650
- ISBN
- 9780735218895
- 0735218897
- 9780525543015
- 0525543015
- LCCN
- 2018046712
- OCLC
- 1057731133
- Author
- Kerr, Philip, author.
- Title
- Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr.
- Publisher
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A Bernie Gunther novelKerr, Philip. Bernie Gunther novel.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1918-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-6650