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The Lady from Zagreb

Philip Kerr

The Lady from Zagreb

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The Lady from Zagreb won the Edgar® Award nomination and was a New York Times bestseller. Berlin, 1942. Three players take the stage. The first, a gorgeous actress—the rising star of a giant German film company controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The second, the very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels—a close confidant of Hitler, ambitious schemer, and flagrant libertine. Finally, there's Bernie Gunther—a former Berlin homicide bull now forced to run errands at the Propaganda Minister's command. When Goebbels tasks Bernie with finding the woman the press have dubbed "the German Garbo," his errand takes him from Zurich to Zagreb to the killing fields of Croatia. It is there that Bernie finds himself in a world of mindless brutality where everyone has a hidden agenda—perfect territory for a true cynic whose instinct is to trust no one.

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Publisher
Penguin
Year
2015
ISBN-13
9780698142893
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
World War II espionageMoral ambiguity under Nazi regimeMurder investigation

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