Occasionally he will foreshadow some event, suggesting that if he had known then what he came to know later he might have acted or spoken differently – but even in those instances he doesn’t reveal too much to the reader, leaving that lovely uncertainty as motivation for turning the page again and again.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from.He does admit, in the aforementioned interview, that his intent is to use each novel to reveal some additional aspects of Bernie’s character.

Thanks to the built-in philosophy, the book had style, even if the plot (which looks forward to Showtime's TV show Dexter) ultimately fell flat. Because of course the Argentines have a complete file on Bernie, so they know who he really is and what he’s done (or what someone thinks he’s done) that brought him to South America under an assumed name. Before Bernie leaves, a high-ranking Gestapo officer corrals him into using the trip as an opportunity to gather evidence on the criminal activities of the SD officer who arranged the trip in the first place. When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long.The problem with the daughter is far worse than Bernie could have ever imagined – the kid is seeing the evil and now elderly Max Reles, in fact wants to marry him. I’ve briefly mentioned already that these novels are written in the first person, entirely from Bernie’s point of view. He was best known for his Bernie Gunther series of 13 historical thrillers and a children's series, Children of the Lamp, under the name P.