Berliner Blau

The 12th installment in the series featuring Bernie Gunther, one of the greatest antiheroes in crime literature. Côte d’Azur, 1956: Bernie Gunther is still working as a concierge at the Grand Hôtel Cap Ferrat. There, he unexpectedly receives a visit from Erich Mielke, the future Minister for State Security in East Germany, who has a job for Bernie. He is to travel to London to eliminate an English agent – an old acquaintance of Bernie’s. Although he himself was betrayed by her, Bernie has no intention of carrying out this assignment. Instead, he flees across Europe. Hot on his heels is Friedrich Korsch, a Stasi agent. The two men solved a murder case at the Berghof, Hitler's former residence at Obersalzberg, back in 1939. Now, years later, Bernie must realize that while Hitler is dead, his evil power still lingers.