Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the real politik of vintage John le Carr, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene. "A thriller that will challenge preconceptions and stimulate the little grey cells."--"The Times" (London), selecting "F...

Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the real politik of vintage John le Carr, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene. "A thriller that will challenge preconceptions and stimulate the little grey cells."--"The Times" (London), selecting "Field Gray" as a Thriller of the Year.

*This Edgar(R) Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr's New York Times * bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective's harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.*During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective--until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray * strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War--revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...