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Title	:	The Other Side of Silence (Bernie Gunther #11)
Author	:	Philip Kerr
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	March 29th 2016 by Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Cultural. Germany

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Once I’d been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent.” Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham. And it turns out it is not just a bridge partner that he needs; it’s some professional advice. Maugham is being blackmailed—perhaps because of his unorthodox lifestyle. Or perhaps because of something in his past, because once upon a time, Maugham worked for the British secret service, and the people now blackmailing him are spies.

As Gunther fans know, all roads lead back to the viper’s nest that was Hitler’s Third Reich and to the killing fields that spread like a disease across Europe. Even in 1956, peace has not come to the continent: now the Soviets have the H-bomb and spies from every major power feel free to make all of Europe their personal playground.

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Original Title:	The Other Side of Silence
ISBN:	0399177043 (ISBN13: 9780399177040)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Bernie Gunther #11
Setting:	France
Literary Awards:	CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Nominee for Shortlist (2016)

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Theres always been a touch of Philip Marlowe to Philip Kerrs, Bernie Gunther. After all, are there really any meaner streets for some men to walk down than Nazi Berlin? Theyre both world-weary cynics with a good eye for the simile. That comparison is really played on by the setting of The Other Side of Silence. The idle rich of the post-war French Riviera are not far removed from the idle rich of Beverly Hills, except when Marlowe walks up the long driveway of a mansion he finds General

This is a brilliant, erudite and lucid thriller with a weary Gunther as Walter Wolf working as a hotel concierge in the South of France. This is the first book I have read of the series and it works as a standalone. We encounter Gunther trying to commit suicide but thankfully failing. His wife has left him to return home. Gunther finds himself helping W. Somerset Maugham, a writer and one time spy, who is being blackmailed by an old and loathed foe of Gunther, Harold Henning. He has a photograph



Readers who arent familiar with Bernie Gunther have missed out on a classically cynical detective living in a time and place where there is much to be cynical about. Those who have read Philip Kerrs engaging series know that, if nothing else, Gunther has served as an engaging tour guide to life in Germany during the years that the Nazi party was in power. In this eleventh book in the series, one war is over and another, colder war has begun. Kerrs Berlin gumshoe is in hiding, changing his name

I would like to thank Netgalley and Quercus for an advance copy of The Other Side of Silence, the 11th outing for Bernie Gunther, set on the French Riviera in 1956.Bernie is hiding out in Cap Ferrat under the name of Walter Wolf and working as a hotel concierge. He works by day and plays bridge twice a week and that is the sum total of his interesting life now that his wife has left him. This changes when W. Somerset Maugham asks him to be his go-between in a case of blackmail. The situation

I have read all ten previous books in Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series, and this may well be the most brilliant and my favorite. The writing is topnotch, even better than usual, and the heavily ironic Berlin-style humor is hot and heavy coming out of Bernie's mouth. If you've read all his previous misadventures, then you understand how he got so jaded and depressed. He has every right to feel that way. In fact, in the early pages of this book, he even recounts that he tried suicide. How he is

The French Riviera, 1956. Bernie Gunther, using the name and passport of Walter Wolf provided by Stasi boss Erich Mielke, is the concierge at the Grand Hôtel Cap Ferrat. Elisabeth, his third wife, has left him to return to Berlin, which deep down, he misses more than her.I miss being a cop when the Berlin police still meant something good. But mostly I miss the people, who were as sour as I am. Even Germans dont like Berliners, and its a feeling thats usually reciprocated.Now in his late