Greeks Bearing Gifts will be released on April 3rd, 2018. But there’s a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens…one who may have never left. Working together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases–new and old–to bed. He’s kept that man’s name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice… Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerrs New York Times bestselling series. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place.Įnter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Witzel’s claimed losses are large, and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. Under the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr has everything you could possibly want from a historical detective novel: the time and setting are unique, the plot is simple and engrossing and the characters a pleasure to learn about and follow. Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages “Christoph Ganz” to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece.

A vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling series.

Greeks bearing gifts by philip kerr