Field Grey

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A man doesnt work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.

So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 & Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat & a beautiful companion & quits the isl&. But the US Navy has other ideas, & soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar
- a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin & yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder.

The job is simple: he is to meet & greet POWs returning to Germany & to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal & member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man & deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernies past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him
- in a way he could never have foreseen.

Bernie Gunthers seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced & quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris & Berlin, & ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.