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SUMMARY:Philip Kerr signs PRAGUE FATALE A Bernie Gunther Novel
DESCRIPTION:British ace Kerr\, up for a 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Field of Grey ($15)\, brings us another novel for Berlin's Bernie Gunther in Prague Fatale (Putnam $26.95)[column width="47%" padding="6%"]    Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh and read Law at university. Having learned nothing as an undergraduate lawyer he stayed on as postgraduate and read Law and Philosophy\, most of this German\, which was when and where he first became interested in German twentieth century history and\, in particular\, the Nazis.  Following university he worked as a copywriter at a number of advertising agencies\, including Saatchi & Saatchi\, during which time he wrote no advertising slogans of any note. He spent most of his time in advertising researching an idea he'd had for a novel about a Berlin-based policeman\, in 1936. And following several trips to Germany - and a great deal of walking around mean streets of Berlin - his first novel\, March Violets\, was published in 1989 and introduced the world to Bernie Gunther.    "I loved Berlin before the wall came down; I'm pretty fond of the place now\, but back then it was perhaps the most atmospheric city on earth. Having a dark\, not to say black sense of humour myself\, it's always been somewhere I feel very comfortable." Having left advertising behind\, Kerr worked for the London Evening Standard and produced two more novels featuring Bernie Gunther: The Pale Criminal (1990) and A German Requiem (1991). These were published as an omnibus edition\, Berlin Noir in 1992.    Thinking he might like to write something else he did and published a host of other novels before returning to Bernie Gunther after a gap of sixteen years\, with The One from the Other (2007).    Says Kerr\, "I never intended to leave such a large gap between Book 3 and Book 4; a lot of other stuff just got in the way; and I feel kind of lucky that people are still as interested in this guy as I am. If anything I'm more interested in him now than I was back in the day." Two more novels followed\, A Quiet Flame (2008) and If the Dead Rise Not (2009).    Field Gray is perhaps his most ambitious novel yet that features Bernie Gunther. Crossing a span of more than twenty years\, it takes Bernie from Cuba\, to New York\, to Landsberg Prison in Germany where he vividly describes a story that covers his time in Paris\, Toulouse\, Minsk\, Konigsberg\, and his life as a German POW in Soviet Russia.    Kerr is already working on an eighth title in the series.    "I don't know how long I can keep doing them; I'll probably write one too many; but I don't feel that's happened yet."    [/column] [column width="47%" padding="0"]    [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="218" caption="Click to Order an Autographed Copy"][/caption]    September 1941: Reinhard Heydrich is hosting a gathering to celebrate his appointment as Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. He has chosen his guests with care. All are high-ranking Party members and each is a suspect in a crime as yet to be committed: the murder of Heydrich himself.    Indeed\, a murder does occur\, but the victim is a young adjutant on Heydrich’s staff\, found dead in his room\, the door and windows bolted from the inside. Anticipating foul play\, Heydrich had already ordered Bernie Gunther to Prague. After more than a decade in Berlin's Kripo\, Bernie had jumped ship as the Nazis came to power\, setting himself up as a private detective. But Heydrich\, who managed to subsume Kripo into his own SS operations\, has forced Bernie back to police work. Now\, searching for the killer\, Gunther must pick through the lives of some of the Reich’s most odious officials.    A perfect locked-room mystery. But because Philip Kerr is a master of the sleight of hand\, Prague Fatale is also a tense political thriller: a complex tale of spies\, partisan terrorists\, vicious infighting\, and a turncoat traitor situated in the upper reaches of the Third Reich. [twitter style="vertical" float="left"] [fblike style="standard" showfaces="false" width="150" verb="like" font="arial"]    [/column]
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