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Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame (USA 2010) From the Publisher: Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame. A Bernie Gunther Novel. Penguin, ISBN: 9780143116486 (February, 2010), 416 p., $15.00.
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Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame (USA 2009) From the Publisher: 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 Perón 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 up dead, gruesomely mutilated, and another -- the daughter of a wealthy German banker -- has gone missing. Both crimes seem to connect to an unsolved case Bernie worked on back in Berlin in 1932. It's not so far-fetched that the cases might be linked: after all, the scum of the earth has been washing up on Argentine shores -- state-licensed murderers and torturers -- so why couldn't a serial killer be among them? But Argentina, just like Germany, holds terrible secrets within its corrupt halls of power. When beautiful Anna Yagubsky seeks Gunther out, desperate for help, to find out what happened to her Jewish aunt and uncle who have disappeared, he is drawn into a horror story that rivals everything he has tried so hard to leave behind half a world away. In this new postwar world, Bernie Gunther is a man without a name or a country, but still in full possession of his conscience. He is "the right kind of hero for his time -- and ours." (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame. A Bernie Gunther Novel. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399155307 (March, 2009), 389 p., $26.95.
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Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame (UK 2008) From the Publisher: 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? Redolent with atmosphere, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-semitism under the Peróns. Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame. A Bernie Gunther Mystery. Quercus, ISBN: 9781847245588 (October, 2008), 413 p., £7.99.
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Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame (UK 2008) From the Publisher: 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? Redolent with atmosphere, this novel ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina's Nazi collaboration and anti-semitism under the Peróns. Philip Kerr: A Quiet Flame. A Bernie Gunther Mystery. Quercus, ISBN: 1847243568 (March, 2008), 407 p., £14.99.
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