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Metropolis
- A Bernie Gunther Novel, Book 14
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye - and first hello - to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home." (Washington Post)
New York Times best-selling author Philip Kerr treats listeners to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.
Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.
In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose, and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.
This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on because the people at the top have noticed him - they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.
Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a 14-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end.
Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens - the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soon usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study, and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever he must to get what he wants.
What the critics say
One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Mysteries & Thrillers of Spring 2019
"Gripping...Kerr does a fine job of immersing the reader in the seamy side of Weimar Germany.... Fans will be sorry to see the last of the honest, wisecracking Bernie." (Publishers Weekly)
"This book is plenty timely. But completed shortly before the author's death, it is also one of Kerr's most congenial, beautifully controlled, and entertaining works. The banter is priceless. Going against the grain - as usual - by writing an origin novel as his swan song, Kerr leaves his fans happy." (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
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- Danielle L
- 2022-07-21
Retrouver Bernie Gunther une dernière fois
Parcourir ce livre après avoir lu la série complète a apaisé ma tristesse à la suite du décès de Phillip Kerr. Je croyais avoir perdu Bernie Gunther pour de bon. Ces retrouvailles avec le policier encore junior et la possibilité de boucler la boucle, de comprendre plusieurs allusions au passé de romans précédents, ont rendu cette écoute excellente.
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