This Edgar(R) Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr's New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective's harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.

During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective--until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War--revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 02/28/2012
ISBN: 9780143120728
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.00d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 05/06/2012 pg. 28