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Name: The Other Side of Silence
Author: Philip Kerr
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Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Thriller

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Once I'd been a good detective in Kripo, but that was a while ago, before the criminals wore smart gray uniforms and nearly everyone locked up was innocent." Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers.

The war is over. Bernie Gunther, our sardonic former Berlin homicide detective and unwilling SS officer, is now living on the French Riviera. It is 1956 and Bernie is the go-to guy at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, the man you turn to for touring tips or if you need a fourth for bridge. As it happens, a local writer needs just that, someone to fill the fourth seat in a regular game that is the usual evening diversion at the Villa Mauresque. Not just any writer. Perhaps the richest and most famous living writer in the world: W. Somerset Maugham. And it turns out it is not just a bridge partner that he needs; it's some professional advice. Maugham is being blackmailed--perhaps because of his unorthodox lifestyle. Or perhaps because of something in his past, because once upon a time, Maugham worked for the British secret service, and the people now blackmailing him are spies.

As Gunther fans know, all roads lead back to the viper's nest that was Hitler's Third Reich and to the killing fields that spread like a disease across Europe. Even in 1956, peace has not come to the continent: now the Soviets have the H-bomb and spies from every major power feel free to make all of Europe their personal playground.

This book is part of the "Bernie Gunther" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
The Pale Criminal
First published 1990
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The One from the Other
First published 2006
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, Pop Rating:2.6/10
A Man Without Breath
First published 2013
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, Pop Rating:1.8/10
A German Requiem
First published 1991
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, Pop Rating:1.8/10
March Violets
First published 1989
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, Pop Rating:2.5/10
A Quiet Flame
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, Pop Rating:2.4/10
If the Dead Rise Not
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, Pop Rating:2.2/10
Field Gray
First published 2010
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, Pop Rating:2.2/10
The Lady from Zagreb
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
Berlin Noir
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, Pop Rating:3.1/10
Prussian Blue
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, Pop Rating:1.8/10
Prague Fatale
First published 2011
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