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Archive for the ‘Detective’ Category

A QUIET FLAME by Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr’s A QUIET FLAME moves back and forth between Argentina in the fifties and Berlin in 1932. The narrator, Bernhard Gunther, has seen it all, and for the most part, what he has seen makes him sick to his stomach. Before the war, Bernie was a wisecracking and insightful Berlin detective…

April 21, 2009  Tags: Mystery, Post War, WW2  Posted in: Detective, Top Pick, WW2  No Comments

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