
Greeks Bearing Gifts
A Bernie Gunther Novel, Book 13
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Narrated by:
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John Lee
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By:
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Philip Kerr
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 best-selling 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.
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Critic reviews
"Adding an arch tone to his delivery, narrator John Lee provides an extra layer of listening pleasure to the thirteenth installment of the adventures of Bernie Gunther... Lee handles the accents and colorful characters, as well as Bernie's observations and the shifts in pacing, with steady hands.... Lee and Kerr combine their storytelling talents to make this visit to the dark streets and alleys of Berlin bone chilling and emotionally satisfying." (AudioFile)
"A terrifically complex tale...a beautifully written novel by a gifted writer who has left us too soon." (Washington Post)
“It doesn't take much to get swept into Gunther's latest adventure or taken in by his darkly witty commentary.” (Chicago Tribune)
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Sorry this is the end
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So good
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As with the two or three novels that preceded this one, we discover the extent to which the Allies ignored some of the worst crimes in human history. They were largely motivated by greed, yet used the fight against communism as their excuse the allow so many senior Nazis to not only evade punishment, but to be leading participants in Germany’s post-war economic miracle.
When as a child in the 60s and 70s, my family encountered Germans on European vacations, my Dad would always say: “I wonder what they did in the War?” As it turns out, he was right: they were very likely to have been Nazis.
Adenauer was the leading architect of post-war Germany and it was he that either commuted the sentences of convicted murders, torturers, thrives and rapists.. or stopped prosecuting them. Worse still, and clearly not sated by killing 6,000,000 Jews, his intelligence services assisted and armed Israel’s enemies.
And yet this great crime of ignoring or forgiving known Nazi murderers was also carried out by many of the new governments of countries previously occupied by Germany. To pursue those of their citizens who assisted Germany’s annihilation of Jews, would have revealed the enormous numbers of them. In countries like Greece, much of the post-WW2 government were beneficiaries of the robbery and murder of it Jews.
Thank you Philip Kerr, for letting people know the extent to which so many Nazi crimes were ignored.
Another fantastic Bernie Gunther novel
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As always John Lee brings Bernie and there rest of the characters to life in another 5 star performance as he continues to be one of the best narrators recording today.
Kerr's Best Yet Bernie Gunther Saga
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Series gets better and better
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Perfection
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I have a little crush on Bernie Gunter....
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slow story
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One of the fun aspects of this series is the different settings provided. This one is set mainly in Greece. The author weaves a tale but gives us the background as to how the Nazi past played out in this locale. Throw in the character of Bernie and you have the makings of a fun listen.
Bernie in Greece
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Farewell Bernie. Hoping that P Kerr wrote more!
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