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One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written LEE CHILD

Bernie Gunther has learned the hard way that there s no way to distinguish the one from the other . The cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and foe – a lifesaving skill in the dangerous years of postwar Germany.

Munich, 1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it s home to all the backstabbing intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It s work that fills Bernie with disgust – but it also fills his sorely depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has disappeared. She s not looking to get him back – he s a wanted man who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She just wants confirmation that he s dead.

It s a simple enough job. But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple…