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Bernhard Günther magánnyomozónak nem osztott jó lapokat a történelem, ám arra még a sokat látott egykori zsaru sincs felkészülve, amivel a náci Németország fővárosában kell szembenéznie. Günther leginkább eltűnt személyek felkutatásához ért, márpedig 1936-ban Berlinben bárkivel könnyen megeshet, hogy nyomtalanul eltűnik. A Berlin Noir-sorozat első részében Bernie-nek egy gyémánt nyakéket kell előkerítenie, és meg kell találnia az ékszer egykori tulajdonosainak, Hermann Six iparmágnás lányának és vejének gyilkosát. Bernie füstös berlini klubokban, a rohamtempóban épülő autópályák mentén sorakozó munkásbarakkokban és az impozáns olimpiai stadion lelátóin próbál a gyilkos nyomára akadni, hogy aztán a náci birodalom legmélyebb bugyraiba alászállva, a dachaui koncentrációs táborban folytassa a hajszát. A Halálos március egy hatalmas tudású, lefegyverző humorú szerző első regénye, amely hátborzongatóan eleven képet fest a náci Németország hétköznapjairól és teszi mindezt a klasszikus hard boiled hagyományait folytatva, Hammett és Chandler legjobb pillanatait idézve.

In 1942, there are many worse places to be than Zurich, and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. Not that he has much choice: the superior is Goebbels himself. Soon Bernie finds himself involved in something much more sinister. The actress, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic commandant of a notorious concentration camp. And the Swiss police have a cold case that they want Bernie to take a look at: one that seems to have connections to some powerful people back in the Reich. The Lady from Zagreb is another inimitable Bernie Gunther investigation from Philip Kerr: a rich, dark and fast-paced adventure of a nightmarish time and a lonely, indomitable hero.

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.

If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research... In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull. Houston is the world's most successful novelist, the playboy head of a literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of best-selling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of his books. And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind those books has some questions for him too...

A foci nem élet és halál kérdése. Sokkal több annál. Scott Manson, a London City segédedzője ezt a saját bőrén tapasztalja meg, amikor a csapat menedzserét, Joao Zarcót holtan találják egy bajnoki mérkőzés után. Minden jel arra mutat, hogy a zseniális, ám nagypofájú portugált agyonverték. A Premier League öldöklő tempójában azonban nincs idő hosszasan gyászolni, máris készülni kell a következő meccsre. A rendőrség tehetetlen, a klub ukrán tulajdonosa, a kétes hírű vállalkozóból lett milliárdos pedig visszautasíthatatlan ajánlatot tesz Scottnak: ha megtalálja a gyilkost, átveheti a csapat irányítását? A Kieső helyen vérbeli focis könyv valós és kitalált figurákkal, korrupcióval, feledhetetlen cselekkel, védésekkel és gólokkal - és persze sajtóhiénákkal, gyanakvó zsarukkal és csábító rendőrnőkkel.

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the Cambridge Spies. Bernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig, a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who, in 1945, was responsible for the deaths of thousands, among them a woman Bernie loved. Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer. Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer, Somerset Maugham. A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa, where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph. Taken in 1937, it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual, Guy Burgess, who, with Donald Maclean, has recently defected to Moscow. Hennig has the photograph and is demanding $50,000 for its release. Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself. Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig.

The twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Charles Cumming. Lee Child calls Bernie Gunther 'one of the greatest anti-heroes ever written'. France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory. But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet.

Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in theSunday Timesand New York Timesbestselling series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on. Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a sunken ship, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an act of vengeance. And so Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe prepares to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks they may have a point.

Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...

Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers. America, 1960. In Washington, DC, John F Kennedy has just been elected President. In Havana, Fidel Castro has been in office for a year, and with Cold War tensions rapidly heating up and the Soviets leading the space race, the thought of a Communist leader so close to home is already raising American blood pressure. Anti-communist fever is rampant in the USA, with a paranoid establishment seeing reds under every bed. Nevertheless, the decision to snuff out the threat of Castro by hiring Tom Jefferson, America's best assassin, to kill him comes from an unusual quarter: the Mafia. But Jefferson's very skillset that makes him the perfect man for this job also ensures he has no qualms in double crossing his criminal paymasters. Jefferson has no issue with Castro: his preferred target is someone much closer to home...

Straightforward is a multi-level course for adults and young adults. Based on observation of what good teachers do in the classroom, it is transparent in its structure, pragmatic in its methodology and varied in its content. This book contains 90 hours of teaching material on this course.

Sprisahanie proti záujmom štátu, zneužívanie tajných služieb, sledovanie, korupcia, čudné praktiky v parlamente, rozkrádanie majetku, krivé obvinenia, úkladné vraždy... Nedajte sa pomýliť – dej románu sa odohráva roku 1696 v nebezpečnom, špinavom a značne skazenom Londýne.Zavraždený má byť– Sir Isaac Newton. Britský autor Philip Kerr zasadil príbeh tejto napínavej knihy do 17. storočia, keď sa popri „bežnom“ kradnutí majetkov a „bežných“ intrigách v Anglicku začína realizovať zločinný plán anglikánskej náboženskej čistky zameranej na fyzickú likvidáciu londýnskych katolíkov. Jedným zo zavraždených má byť aj Sir Isaac Newton. Muž, ktorý nebol iba vedcom, ale od roku 1696 bol aj správcom kráľovskej mincovne, ktorá popri iných štátnych a verejných inštitúciách (napr. zverinci) sídlila v slávnom londýnskom hrade zvanom The Tower. Práve onoho roku 1696, keď Newton nastupuje do úradu, sa mincovni nevodí práve najlepšie. Vysoké náklady, ktoré panovník míňa na dlhotrvajúcu vojnu s Francúzskom, sa vo veľkom kryjú razbou nových peňazí v Toweri, ibaže v mincovni sa dejú aj záhadné veci. Podivnými cestami sa strácajú veľké sumy a zomierajú ľudia.

I za druhé světové války se vraždilo jinak než na masově na frontě. Bernhard Günther je v tomto svém detektivním případu samotným Reinhardem Heydrichem poslán do okupovaného Československa. O víkendu stráveném v zabraném zámečku v panenských Břežanech, jkde se sešly nacistické špičky, je za dveřmi zamčeného pokoje nalezena mrtvola a Bernie musí prokázat, že jeho pověst provtřídního detektiva se zakládá na pravdě. Jinak by si ho nechvalně proslulý protektor podal...