Bernie Gunther is a character from Philip kerr essential to delve into the intrahistory of the most turbulent twentieth century.
Beyond his first literary roles back in the 40s, and his continuation at the height of Nazism, Bernie manages to rise from his ashes to continue inviting us to his particular adventures between the 50s and XNUMXs, an ideal setting for a guy like Bernie that moves with the own magnetism of the great novelist protagonist who is in a new historical situation that went from the postwar period to the settlement of a cold war loaded with maximum tension and full of scenes to be novel.
In what was Philip Kerr's last novel, Bernie says goodbye to its creator with a sense of strange survival, given the almost coincidental death with the publication of the work. And with that melancholic reading point for lovers of Kerr's work, we find a Berni straddling Munich and Athens in his new role as an investigator for insurance companies, a role in apparent degradation for a guy like him. But, of course, in this adaptation to circumstances, Kerr slips us into a very interesting new plot that links Nazism with Greece in the 50s.
Greece invaded by the Nazis from 41 to 44, with the help of Italians and Bulgarians, also underwent bloody plunder and that black final solution with which many Greeks were deported to death camps.
From that sunken Greece to a country that began to be reborn in 1957, especially for its wealthy classes, able to thrive and improve their status even in the worst situations ... When Bernie Gunther travels to Athens to investigate a case of a claim for the insured with whom he collaborates, he can never imagine that the matter is linked to those black days. A maritime accident, a wrecked ship and the death of the owner of the ship, a Jew with too many enemies and a past very close to the days of the genocide. The coincidences hardly accumulate, that is a maxim of the insurers and investigators with instinct ...
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