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The Pale Criminal: Bernie Gunther Thriller 2

Philip Kerr

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Bernie Gunther, Crime & mystery, Historical mysteries, Thriller / suspense

For the first time individually in ebook, the second thriller in the internationally-bestselling Bernie Gunther series

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

A series of horrific ritual murders leads Bernie Gunther to an occult conspiracy at the very heart of the Nazi Party.

Five German schoolgirls are missing. Four have been found dead. But unlike the undesirables who make up the majority of dead and missing people in Hitler's Berlin, these girls were blonde and blue-eyed - the Aryan flower of German maidenhood - and their gruesome deaths recall ritual killings.

Busy with a blackmail case, Bernie is reluctant when he is asked to rejoin the Berlin police in order to track down the murderer. But when the person doing the asking is none other than head of the SD, Reinhard Heydrich, it's not exactly a request he can turn down. As Bernie gets closer to the truth, he realises that at the heart of this case is much more than one lone madman - in fact, there is a conspiracy at work more chilling than he could ever have imagined.

Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carre.

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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'
SUNDAY TIMES

'Bitterly, darkly funny'
SUNDAY HERALD

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Philip Kerr

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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