Bernie GuntherSéries

Cette série suit un détective privé naviguant dans les décennies tumultueuses de l'Allemagne nazie et de l'Europe d'après-guerre. Avec un regard inflexible sur la réalité, il enquête sur des affaires qui le mènent dans les recoins les plus sombres de la société. La série offre une critique acerbe des régimes politiques et des complexités morales de l'époque, tandis que son protagoniste lutte pour survivre et conserver son intégrité.

Greeks bearing gifts: A Bernie Gunther thriller

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March Violets
Philip Kerr
272pages
10 heures de lecture
3,8(12219)Évaluer
Discover the first crime novel in the late Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series - Berlin Noir - set in Hitler's Germany during the 1930s . . . Winter, 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed, their home burned. The woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's life. He turns to Bernhard Gunther, a private eye and former cop. As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail that ends in the hell that is Dachau . . . Stylishly written and powerfully evocative, Kerr's crime classic transports readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduces a private eye in the great tradition of Hammett and Chandler. 'Wonderfully sharp and satirical' Times 'An impressive debut' Guardian 'Fast-paced, laconic, unpredictable, and witty' Evening Standard 'For Christmas, I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes, Guardian
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The Pale Criminal
A Bernie Gunther Novel
Philip Kerr
288pages
11 heures de lecture
4,0(7329)Évaluer
Set in 1930s Berlin, the story follows hard-boiled detective Bernie Gunther as he confronts a chilling serial killer who is wreaking havoc in the city. This gripping mystery delves into the dark underbelly of society, showcasing Gunther's relentless pursuit of justice amidst a backdrop of political tension and moral ambiguity. The novel promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats with its intricate plot and rich historical context.
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A German Requiem
Philip Kerr
320pages
12 heures de lecture
4,0(6346)Évaluer
Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther novels have won him an international reputation as a master of historical suspense. In A German Requiem, the private eye has survived the collapse of the Third Reich to find himself in Vienna. Amid decaying imperial splendor, he traces concentric circles of evil and uncovers a legacy that makes the wartime atrocities seem lily-white in comparison.
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La Mort, Entre Autres
Philip Kerr
564pages
20 heures de lecture
4,0(348)Évaluer
En 1949, à Munich, Bernie Gunther, détective privé en difficulté, fait face à la mort de sa femme et à des problèmes financiers. Lors d'une enquête complexe, il doit jongler entre survie, apparences et morale. Ce livre est la suite de la Trilogie berlinoise et a remporté le prix du polar européen en 2009.
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A quiet flame
Philip Kerr
448pages
16 heures de lecture
4,1(281)Évaluer
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?
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Hôtel Adlon
Philip Kerr
4,0(196)Évaluer
Berlin, 1934. Bernie Gunther, chassé de la Kripo, gangrenée par les nazis, en raison de ses sympathies pour la république de Weimar, s'est reconverti : il est maintenant responsable de la sécurité de l'Hôtel Adlon. Alors qu'il s'échine à effacer de sa généalogie un quart de sang juif, le patron d'une entreprise de construction est assassiné dans sa chambre après avoir passé la soirée avec un homme d'affaires américain véreux, ami de hauts dignitaires nazis. Une séduisante journaliste, chargée par le Herald Tribune d'enquêter sur la préparation des Jeux olympiques de Berlin, engage Bernie. Le sort d'un boxeur juif dont le corps a été repêché dans la Spree lui semble le bon moyen pour rendre compte du climat de démence meurtrière et de répression antisémite qui règne sur la capitale allemande. Le sixième volet des enquêtes de Bernie Gunther par Philip Kerr, l'auteur de la célèbre Trilogie berlinoise.
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Field Grey
Philip Kerr
576pages
21 heures de lecture
4,2(163)Évaluer
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. 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. Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin, and ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.
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Miłość i śmierć w Pradze
Phillip Kerr
3,9(12)Évaluer
Rok 1941, Bernie wraca z frontu wschodniego i podejmuje pracę w wydziale zabójstw berlińskiej Kripo, służąc pod Reinhardem Heydrichem, człowiekiem, którego jednocześnie nienawidzi i którego się boi. Tymczasem Heydrich został niedawno mianowany Recihprotektorem Czechosłowacji. Dostawszy cynk o planowanym na siebie zamachu, przełożony wydaje Bernie`emu rozkaz towarzyszenia mu w swojej wiejskiej posiadłości na przedmieściach Pragi, gdzie Heydrich zaprosił najbardziej odrażające kreatury spośród urzędników Trzeciej Rzeszy, by świętować awans. Wśród gości znajduje się również zabójca...
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Prague Fatale
Philip Kerr
563pages
20 heures de lecture
4,1(159)Évaluer
Quand, en septembre 1941, Bernie Gunther revient du front russe, la capitale du Reich a bien changé. Pénurie, rationnement, couvre-feu, crimes. Berlin rime avec misere et terreur. La découverte d'un cadavre sur une voie de chemin de fer puis l'agression d'une jeune femme précipitent Bernie, affecté au département des homicides de la sinistre Kripo, dans de nouvelles enquetes criminelles. Invité par le général SS Reinhard Heydrich a le rejoindre a Prague pour démasquer un espion infiltré dans son entourage, Bernie est a peine arrivé qu'un des fideles du Reichsprotektor de Boheme-Moravie est assassiné. Bernie doit trouver le coupable. et vite, s'il veut sauver sa peau. Philip Kerr réussit la prouesse de dépeindre avec minutie les quelques mois ayant précédé l'assassinat d'Heydrich.
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Byl pan w Smolensku, kapitanie?
Phillip Kerr
3,9(12)Évaluer
Rok 1943 przynosi niemieckiej propagandzie coś, co według Goebelsa może nawet odwrócić losy wojny. Chodzi o masowe groby odkryte pod Smoleńskiem i ich znaczenie propagandowe. By wypełnić tajne zadanie, Bernhard Günther opuszcza Berlin i udaje się na wschód, aby osobiście zbadać, co znaleziono w Lesie Katyńskim. Bernie na miejscu wplątuje się także w sprawę pewnego zabójstwa i wpada w nie lada tarapaty. Kryminalna fabuła rozwija się w tle jednej z najbardziej makabrycznych zbrodni wojennych, a przyjęty przez Kerra punkt widzenia i narracja pozwalają spojrzeć na mord w Katyniu z innej perspektywy. Ani czytelnik, ani Bernie Günther nie mierzyli się jeszcze z historią w ten sposób.
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A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr
4,2(96)Évaluer
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau – weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world where that’s now a rarity. When human remains are found deep in the Katyn Forest, Bernie is sent to investigate. Rumour has it that this mass grave is full of Polish officers murdered by the Russians. For Josef Goebbels, proof of Russian involvement is sure to destroy the Western Alliance, giving Germany a chance to reverse its devastating losses. But supposing the truth is far more damaging to the German cause? It’s Bernie Gunther’s job to give Goebbels what he needs. But when there’s nothing left for Gunther to lose, the compulsion to speak the truth becomes ever stronger…
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The lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
4,0(3158)Évaluer
Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke ...One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.
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The Other Side of Silence
Philip Kerr
352pages
13 heures de lecture
3,9(106)Évaluer
The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.
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Bleu de Prusse
Philip Kerr
672pages
24 heures de lecture
4,3(219)Évaluer
« 1939. L'Europe retient son souffre et Hitler s'apprête à fêter son demi-siècle. Alors qu'il est attendu au Berghof, sa résidence des Alpes bavaroises, un ingénieur y est abattu. Balle perdue de braconnier ou attentat contre le IIIe Reich? Envoyé de Berlin, l'inspecteur Bernie Gunther n'a que sept jours pour élucider l'affaire. Obligé de percer les secrets de la montagne d'Hitler, Gunther est en sursis. Car, dans ce panier de crabes nazis, nombreux sont les intimes du Führer qui ont des choses à cacher ... »-- Quatrième de couverture
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Greeks bearing gifts: A Bernie Gunther thriller
Philip Kerr
4,1(132)Évaluer
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Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther thriller
Philip Kerr
4,0(3114)Évaluer
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 ...

Die Berlin-Trilogie
Feuer in Berlin / Im Sog der dunklen Mächte / Alte Freunde - neue Feinde
Philip Kerr
1072pages
38 heures de lecture
3,6(19)Évaluer
Berlin Noir – Philip Kerrs phantastische Thrillertrilogie aus der deutschen Vergangenheit In seiner Berlin-Trilogie um den Privatdetektiv Bernhard Gunther gelingt es Philip Kerr, die schmutzig-düstere Atmosphäre des Dritten Reichs und der Berliner Nachkriegszeit in der Form eines spannenden Kriminalromans heraufzubeschwören. Geschickt verwebt er die historischen Ereignisse und Protagonisten mit seinen Kriminalgeschichten – eine atemberaubende Mischung. «Kerr ist die europäische Krimi Entdeckung der letzten Jahre.» RADIO BREMEN
La trilogie berlinoise
Philip Kerr
1015pages
36 heures de lecture
4,3(6881)Évaluer
Publiés pour la première fois entre 1989 et 1991, L'Eté de cristal, La Pâle Figure et Un requiem allemand ont pour toile de fond le IIIe Reich à son apogée et, après la défaite, l'Allemagne en ruine de 1947. Bernie Gunther, ex-commissaire de la police berlinoise, est devenu détective privé. Désabusé et courageux, perspicace et insolent, Bernie est à l'Allemagne nazie ce que Philip Marlowe est à la Californie de la fin des années 1930 : un homme solitaire, témoin de son époque.Des rues de Berlin "nettoyées" pour offrir une image idyllique aux visiteurs des Jeux olympiques à celles de Vienne la corrompue, Bernie enquête au milieu d'actrices et de prostituées, de psychiatres et de banquiers, de producteurs de cinéma et de publicitaires. La différence avec un film noir d'Hollywood, c'est que les principaux protagonistes s'appellent Heydrich, Himmler et Goering....