Metropolis
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New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.
Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.
In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.
This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.
Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a fourteen-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end.
Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants.
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Das Prequel ist zugleich das letzte Buch der Reihe
Stellvertretend für die gesamte Bernie Gunther Reihe, die ich nur wärmstens empfehlen kann, ist dies das letzte Buch. Leider ist der Autor inzwischen verstorben. Kerrs Bücher zeichnen sich vor allem aus durch hervorragende historische Recherche und authentisches Lokalkolorit. An Bernies Seite erlebt man Höhen und Tiefen eines vielschichtigen Charakters durch die Jahrzehnte, beginnend in den 20er Jahren in Berlin. Ich habe alle Bücher der Reihe schon einmal gelesen und habe jetzt nach vielen Jahren noch einmal von vorn angefangen. Bei diesem Buch ist der Plot nicht ganz so überzeugend wie sonst, die Beschreibung Berlins der wilden 20er Jahre mit der im Hintergrund bereits aufkommenden Nationalsozialismus macht das Buch allemal lesenswert.
Description
New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.
Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.
In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.
This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.
Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a fourteen-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end.
Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants.
Book Information
Posts
Das Prequel ist zugleich das letzte Buch der Reihe
Stellvertretend für die gesamte Bernie Gunther Reihe, die ich nur wärmstens empfehlen kann, ist dies das letzte Buch. Leider ist der Autor inzwischen verstorben. Kerrs Bücher zeichnen sich vor allem aus durch hervorragende historische Recherche und authentisches Lokalkolorit. An Bernies Seite erlebt man Höhen und Tiefen eines vielschichtigen Charakters durch die Jahrzehnte, beginnend in den 20er Jahren in Berlin. Ich habe alle Bücher der Reihe schon einmal gelesen und habe jetzt nach vielen Jahren noch einmal von vorn angefangen. Bei diesem Buch ist der Plot nicht ganz so überzeugend wie sonst, die Beschreibung Berlins der wilden 20er Jahre mit der im Hintergrund bereits aufkommenden Nationalsozialismus macht das Buch allemal lesenswert.