An NPR Book of the Year A Crime Reads Best Crime Book of 2018 A vicious murder puts Bernie
Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in
Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling series. Munich 1956. Bernie Gunther has a new name a
chip on his shoulder and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and
encourages Christoph Ganz to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance
company with a client in Athens Greece. Under the cover of his new identity Bernie begins to
investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in
Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large and even worse they may be the
stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel he
finds that someone else has gotten to him first leaving a corpse in his place. Enter
Lieutenant Leventis who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he
investigated during the height of the war. Back then a young Leventis suspected an S.S.
officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's
name in his memory all these years waiting for his second chance at justice... Working
together Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much
more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never
left.
