Field Grey: an electrifying historical espionage thriller that will keep you hooked
Oct 2010 · Hachette UK
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'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD
It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence.
He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned in the Isle of Pines. There he meets Castro, and a French intelligence officer, Thibaud, who liaises between the CIA and French intelligence. Exhaustively questioned by Thibaud, Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin and another prison cell with a proposition: work for the French or hang for murder.
Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany. One of these is Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS, who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way.
But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen.
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PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR
'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS
'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST
'One of the most memorable and original characters' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Bitterly, darkly funny' SUNDAY HERALD
It's 1954 and Bernie has tired of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky for Cuban Intelligence.
He secretly buys a boat and sails to Florida, where he's arrested, sent back to Cuba and imprisoned in the Isle of Pines. There he meets Castro, and a French intelligence officer, Thibaud, who liaises between the CIA and French intelligence. Exhaustively questioned by Thibaud, Bernie finds himself flown back to Berlin and another prison cell with a proposition: work for the French or hang for murder.
Bernie's job is simple: to meet and greet POWs returning from Germany. One of these is Edgard de Boudel, a French war criminal and member of the French SS, who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way.
But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen.
*****************************
PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR
'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS
'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST
'One of the most memorable and original characters' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Bitterly, darkly funny' SUNDAY HERALD
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4.5
21 reviews
David Allen
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November 7, 2018
Dogged WW1 vet and everyman cop Bernie Gunther continues to battle the worst criminals in the world i.e. fascists and communists who have spent most of their respective careers incarcerating and murdering anybody who gets in their way. All Bernie really wants to do, as Berlin's top detective, is to solve 'normal' murders, but he's too often coerced by his political masters to, in effect, cover up their own crimes and implicate others. Flashbacks so muddy the story the reader loses the often gripping plot.
Ewan S
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July 24, 2018
Meanders around nothing much of a story....disappointing, but Gunther is
still a brilliant character. Read others
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Steve McManus
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February 26, 2016
I enjoyed it, not sure if it was because I read the electronic version but I was annoyed by the high number of typing errors
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About the author
Philip Kerr has written over thirty books of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. The sixth book in the series, If the Dead Rise Not, won the CWA Historical Dagger. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers, The Children of the Lamp. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.
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