If The Dead Rise Not
In this "richly gratifying mystery...that echoes the noir instincts of Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald while striking new ground of its own," Detective Bernie Gunther navigates two corrupt regimes (Los Angeles Times).
Berlin, the year 1934. Former police officer Bernie Gunther, now a hotel detective, finds himself trapped between competing elements of the Nazi apparatus as Hitler and Avery Brundage, the director of the United States Olympic Committee, conspire to soften Nazi anti-Semitism in the run-up to the 1936 Olympic Games...
In the year 1954, Havana was the capital of Cuba. Batista has recently gained control, backed by the CIA; Castro is imprisoned; and the American Mafia is getting a stranglehold on Cuba's booming gambling and prostitution sectors. Bernie has returned with a rather tranquil new life after being thrown out of Buenos Aires. But when he runs across an old love and a violent killer from his Berlin days, he realizes he can't fully escape his past...
