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Zusatztext 'One of the great achievements of contemporary crime fiction' Observer. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Bernie Gunther! forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police! is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - a businessman and a Jewish boxer! and Bernie is drawn into the lives of various hotel guests. One! a beautiful left-wing journalist! is intent on persuading America to boycott the Olympiad. The other! a Chicago gangster! wants to use the Olympics to enrich himself and the Chicago mob. Zusammenfassung As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba. The sixth in the internationally bestselling series
