The Lady from Zagreb: A Bernie Gunther Novel, by Philip Kerr
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The Lady from Zagreb: A Bernie Gunther Novel, by Philip Kerr
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In 1942 there are worse places to be than Zurich, and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job.
The actress, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic commandant of a notorious concentration camp, and Bernie finds himself involved in something much more sinister.
The Lady from Zagreb: A Bernie Gunther Novel, by Philip Kerr- Amazon Sales Rank: #114618 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-05-07
- Released on: 2015-05-07
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 822 minutes
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67 of 72 people found the following review helpful. It's not "Berlin Noir" but it's much closer than the later Gunther novels have been By Frobisher I should start by saying that I was mesmerized by the "Berlin Noir" trilogy, and at once started reading other Kerr novels... and I hated all of the non-Bernie Gunther novels. I then read "The One From The Other" set in '49 and I liked that. So I thought it was just Bernie that I liked.Then I read (forget title) a Bernie Gunther set after the war in South America, and I couldn't finish it, as it seemed like a caricature of Gunther. Yes, Kerr has always leaned too heavily on the wise-cracking PI thing, and the metaphors get a bit much, but in the earlier Gunther novels they didn't detract much. But I just gave up on Gunther and stopped reading Kerr.Then "The Lady..." was offered to me for free as a Vine reviewer and I thought I'd give it a chance... and sure enough, Bernie's back. Do I think that this is as good as the original trilogy? No, but that may just be because this is a bit 'more of the same' and after you've read the trilogy a couple of times, Gunther during WW II in Nazi Germany isn't going to be new.Having said that, this is good, and Kerr seems to me to have regained his grip on the Gunther character. It also helps that this is mostly set in '42 and that helps a lot. If you've never read Kerr, please start with "Berlin Noir" but if you have and liked that, you'll like this.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful. A comparative oasis in time for Bernie Gunther By Blue in Washington One of the better Bernie Gunther books, mostly set in the mid-WWII period as the German military juggernaut has been blunted and the endgame is increasingly visible to most Europeans. Ex-Berlin copper Gunther is wearing at least two professional hats in this story--member of the SD and investigator for the German War Crimes Commission. Whatever his official title and duties (and they aren't altogether clear), his image as a free-booting detective has earned him an unwanted relationship with Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Truth and Propaganda. Goebbels wants help in tying down the services (in more ways than one) of a young actress. The assignment will bring a lot of pleasure and some amount of pain to Gunther. It will also send him on the road to Yugoslavia and Switzerland where big trouble awaits.I really liked this episode of the Gunther series as it has a terrific plot, great characters, snappy/sassy dialogue and explores some more exotic aspects of WWII. Author Phillip Kerr navigates the historic period and the portrays principal players of the time with a sure hand to detail and real credibility in presenting the action as human drama as opposed to simple political and military action. The novel is an entertaining read from page one and does fine as a stand alone story for any reader who hasn't sampled the series previously. This book will certainly gather some new fans for Bernie Gunther.Engrossing, entertaining and historically very credible. Recommended.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Hands down, the best thing I’ve read in many months – if not longer. By Jim Napier, mystery & crime fiction reviewer The tenth in the impressive Bernie Gunther series, The Lady From Zagreb features the former Berlin cop who finds himself one of the many who now serve Nazi masters, and who constantly strive to walk the narrow (and dangerous) path between following outrageous orders while maintaining some vestige of personal integrity. In his latest outing Gunther does both, in the process alternating between solving more than one murder yet adding to the death toll himself when it proves necessary.The tale begins in 1956, on the French Riviera. Gunther recalls the events of the mid-nineteen forties, and his relationship with a devastatingly beautiful Croatian actress named Dalia Dresner, with whom he’d had a brief but intense relationship at the time. The story soon returns to Berlin during the same era, just after the infamous butcher Richard Heyrich had been killed by Czech patriots, for which the Nazis were taking horrific reprisals.In the midst of this turmoil the Germans, of all people, have arranged an international crime conference and its organizer, General Arthur Nebe, has tapped Gunther to be their keynote speaker. He’s been ordered to give a talk on a well-known case in which he ran to earth a notorious strangler. He’s been ordered to give a talk on a well-known case in which he ran to earth a notorious strangler. Gunther does not miss the irony of focusing on a lone killer’s actions in the face of the much more significant atrocities being perpetrated at that very moment by his Nazi masters. Adding to this macabre piece of political theatre, the conference is taking place at Wannsee, the very site where the Nazis had recently met to determine the fate of Germany’s – indeed Europe’s – Jewish population.Bernie is drawn into an intrigue involving Josef Goebbels, the Minister of Truth and Propaganda, and a film actress Dahlia Dresner. She’d been a star in Germany, and besotted with her, Goebbels wants her to return from Zurich to make a film for him. The problem is, Dahlia isn’t interested. He dispatches Gunther to Switzerland with Carte Blanche to persuade her otherwise, but fearing that he might, like so many before him, fail to return, he arranges a hostage who remains behind.Learning that Bernie is headed for Switzerland, General Walter Schellenberg “asks” (a word that has a special connotation in Nazi Germany) him to deliver to drive a new Mercedes-Benz roadster to Zurich, a gift for Paul Meyer-Schwertenbach, a Swiss policeman. It seems that, despite their famous neutrality, the Swiss and the Germans are involved in some sort of arrangement, and Gunther figures the roadster is to sweeten the deal.Bernie’s involvement in the machinations of high-ranking Nazis is growing by the minute, before it has ended he will find himself in very strange company, searching Yugoslavia for a Catholic priest or a Slavic war criminal – he’s not sure which – trying to convince shadowy interrogators that he’s not a high-ranking Nazi officer, and trying to avoid the Swiss police who want to question him over some sudden and unexplained deaths. It will require all of Gunther’s wits to survive, let along succeed in his several missions.As the tale moves toward it’s conclusion it returns to the Riviera in 1956, where Gunther is reunited with someone from the events of the forties, to a conclusion that fits perfectly with the jaded plotline and leaves the reader wanting more.As we’ve come to expect, Philip Kerr’s latest, though nominally a work of fiction, is based solidly and uncompromisingly on fact. The major characters are all drawn from the events of the day, and run the gamut from Germans to Swiss to Slavs to Americans. As a result, the reader is left with a clear indication of the events and personalities of the time. And in a bonus at the end, Kerr describes the postwar fate of many of the real-life figures in the story.Peppered with dark humour and dialogue fueled by Bernie Gunther’s insolence, the reader constantly wonders just how far he can – or will – go before he crosses the line and prompts his Nazi masters to be rid of him. Philip Kerr has done the nigh impossible: given readers an admirable figure who is more than a little flawed, and setting his actions against a background of the brutalities of the Third Reich and all the other horrors of war. It is a superb example of Nazi Noir, the narrative and dialogue echoing the glib, cynical interplay we have come to admire in the great period noir classics of the 1940s. Kerr effortlessly weaves a complex tale that moves from the corridors of the Nazi hierarchy, where everything is black or white, to the morally ambiguous arena of ordinary people on the fringes of power, simply trying desperately to stay alive, and where the real trick is figuring out who is which. As Gunther says, "Evil doesn’t come wearing evening dress and speaking with a foreign accent. It doesn’t have a scar on its face and a sinister smile. It rarely if ever owns a castle with a laboratory in the attic, and it doesn’t have joined-up eyebrows and gap teeth. The fact is, it’s easy to recognize an evil man when you see him: he looks just like you or me.”The Lady From Zagreb is, hands down, the best thing I’ve read in many months – if not longer.__________Since 2005 Jim Napier's reviews and interviews have appeared in several Canadian newspapers and on such websites as Spinetingler, The Rap Sheet, Shots Magazine, Crime Time, Reviewing The Evidence, January magazine, the Montreal Review of Books, the Ottawa Review of Books, and Amazon.com, as well as on his own award-winning crime fiction site, Deadly Diversions. He can be reached at jnapier@deadlydiversions.com
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