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    Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel
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    Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel
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    Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel

    Written by Philip Kerr

    Narrated by John Lee

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times best-selling author Philip Kerr treats listeners to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.

    Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.

    In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose, and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.

    This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on because the people at the top have noticed him — they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.

    Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a 14-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end.

    Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens — the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soon usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study, and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever he must to get what he wants.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781984840639
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    Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel
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    Philip Kerr

    Philip Kerr is the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers, for which he received a CWA Dagger Award. Born in Edinburgh, he now lives in London. He is a life-long supporter of Arsenal. Follow @theScottManson on Twitter.

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    • 4/5
      The narrator, John Lee, doesn't really do German accents so it's a bit like listening to a very plummy Brit lecturing you, which gave me a problem. It might not bother you at all. With a better - to me - narrator I would have given it 5 stars. I'll miss Bernie and Philip Kerr.
    • 5/5
      Love this series and the narrator John Lee does an excellent job
    • 5/5
      This is the last Bernie Gunther novel. Don't miss it. I wish Kerr were around to write more. This one is as good as the others, i. e., it is excellent. It conveys a melancholy and vivid sense of the lost world of Weimar Germany, its vibrancy, decadence and impending doom.
    • 5/5
      As always a good Bernie story, sad to know that it's the author's last one too.