In this Edgar(R) Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr's New York
Times bestselling series, former detective and unwilling SS officer
Bernie Gunther is on the hunt for a beautiful femme fatale...
Berlin, 1942. Three players take the stage. The first, a gorgeous
actress--the rising star of a giant German film company controlled by
the Propaganda Ministry. The second, the very clever, very dangerous
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels--a close confidant of Hitler,
ambitious schemer, and flagrant libertine. Finally, there's Bernie
Gunther--a former Berlin homicide bull now forced to run errands at the
Propaganda Minister's command.
When Goebbels tasks Bernie with finding the woman the press have dubbed
**"**the German Garbo, " his errand takes him from Zurich to Zagreb
to the killing fields of Croatia. It is there that Bernie finds himself
in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden
agenda--perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no
one.