Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke . . . One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails ...
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Summer 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke . . . One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.
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Ian Rankin's protagonist is Detective John Rebus. Philip Kerr's main man is Bernie Gunther, also a detective. However, there the similarities end. Kerr's Gunther is humorous; Rankin's Rebus seems to lack any discernible connection to personal humor. "The Lady from Zagreb" is a perfect example. Despite murderous doings and nefarious activities, Gunther rarely is without humor, much of it sarcasm and self-deprecation. Kerr's Gunther is rarely predictable; Rankin's Rebus is unfortunately so. All of Kerr's novels (so far--I am up to #11) are a thrill, bringing the mundane into murder.
