When his cover is blown, former Berlin bull and unwilling SS officer
Bernie Gunther must re-enter a cat-and-mouse game that continues to
shadow his life a decade after Germany's defeat in World War 2...
The French Riviera, 1956 Bernie's old and dangerous adversary Erich
Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice--and
he's not on holiday. Mielke is calling in a debt and wants Bernie to
travel to London to poison a female agent they've both had dealings
with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to
dodge his Stasi handler--former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch--Bernie
bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he
has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked
together...
Obersalzberg, Germany, 1939 A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead
at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Bavaria. Bernie and Korsch have one
week to find the killer before the leader of the Third Reich arrives to
celebrate his fiftieth birthday. Bernie knows it would mean disaster if
Hitler discovers a shocking murder has been committed on the terrace of
his own home. But Obersalzberg is also home to an elite Nazi community,
meaning an even bigger disaster for Bernie if his investigation takes
aim at one of the party's higher-ups...
1939 and 1956: two different eras about to converge in an explosion
Bernie Gunther will never forget.
