Former detective and reluctant SS officer Bernie Gunther must
infiltrate a brutal world of spies, partisan terrorists, and high-level
traitors in this "clever and compelling"(The Daily Beast) New York
Times bestseller from Philip Kerr.
Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again
working homicide in Berlin's Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a
man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named
Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin
in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside
Prague, where he has invited some of the Third Reich's most odious
officials to celebrate his new appointment. One of them is the would-be
assassin. Bernie can think of better ways to spend a beautiful autumn
weekend, but, as he says, "You don't say no to Heydrich and live."