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A Quiet FlamePhilip Kerr

A Quiet Flame

Philip Kerr
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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 Peron 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…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2010
    Penguin (Non-Classics) · 416 pages · 9780143116486
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    Penguin USA, Inc. · 9781101016435
  • Other · English · 2009
    G. P. Putnam's Sons · 9780399155307
  • Other · English · 2009
    Thorndike Press · 9781410417695
Politics and governmentPrivate investigatorsPrivate investigators in fictionGirls in fictionBernhard Gunther (Fictitious character)GirlsUndercover operations in fictionCrimes against