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Bernie Gunther, once a high‑ranking Commissar in Nazi Germany, finds himself on the run from the ruthless Stasi officer Erich Mielke. As he evades capture, Gunther reflects on a grisly case he solved seventeen years earlier—an engineer was shot on the terrace of Hitler’s private residence. The story intertwines Gunther’s chilling past with the present danger he faces, offering a tense examination of guilt, memory, and survival in post‑war Germany.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Historical Mystery
Authors: Philip Kerr
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