Ex-Policeman Bernie Günther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin. But then he went freelance, and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture. And even after the war, amidst the decayed, imperial splendour of Vienna, Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison . . .
Philip Kerr was born in Edinburgh in 1956, and lives in London. He is the author if March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem, A Philosophical Investigation, Dead Meat (shown on television as Grushko), Gridiron and Esau.
