03142cam a2200469 i 4500 382685652 TxAuBib 20190523120000.0 181011s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018046712 9780735218895 0735218897 9780525543015 0525543015 (OCoLC)1057731133 TxAuBib rda Kerr, Philip. Metropolis : a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019] ©2019. 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Bernie Gunther novel, A "A Marian Wood book.". "New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad. A portrait of Bernie Gunther in his twenties: He's young, but he's seen four bloody years of trench warfare. And he's not stupid. So when he receives a promotion and a ticket out of Vice squad, he knows he's not really leaving behind the criminal gangs, the perverse sex clubs, and the laundry list of human corruption. It's 1928 and Berlin is a city on the edge of chaos, where nothing is truly verboten. But soon a new wave of shockingly violent murders sweeps up society's most vulnerable, prostitutes and wounded ex-soldiers begging on the streets. As Bernie Gunther sets out to make sense of multiple murders with different MOs in a city that knows no limits, he must face the fact that his own police HQ is not immune. The Nazi party has begun to infiltrate the Alex, Berlin's central office, just as the shaky Weimar government makes a last, desperate attempt to control a nation edging toward to the Third Reich. It seems like the only escape for most Berliners is the theater and Bernie's no exception. As he gets deeper into the city's sordid underground network, he seeks comfort with a make-up artist who is every bit a match for his quick wit and increasingly sardonic view of the world. But even this space can't remain untouched, not with this pervasive feeling that everything is for sale in Berlin if you're man enough to kill for it"-- Provided by publisher. 20190523. Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character) Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Murder Investigation Germany Berlin Fiction. FICTION / Thrillers. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. Detective and mystery stories. Berlin (Germany) History 1918-1945 Fiction. Germany History 1918-1933 Fiction. Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. A Bernie Gunther novel. TXTLL