Bernie Gunther Novel A Man Without Breath, Book 9, (Paperback)

from dianaleez

Opening Philip Kerr's ninth Bernie Gunther historical mystery, 'A Man without Breath' is like stepping into the Berlin of 1943. The German Army's defeat at Stalingrad has sent an unavoidable message to the German populace - the war may not be winnable. The mood in Berlin is necessarily grim. Add ...

from Luisali

Awesome, as usual! This is a grimmer story than the previous ones (I'm referring to the chronological order and not the publication one) and is hopeless like A Quiet Flame. The harshness is due both to the setting (Katyn, Belarus, and Russia, some of the darkest places of World War II) and to the...

from BrianHostad

After the return to form in Prague Fatale, this was slightly dissapointing. Bernie Gunther's involvement in the Katyn Wood investigation has been referred to in many of the previous books so it was clear that we would get a story out of it at some time. In the end though it feels like Kerr has ha...

from JAshleyOdell

Disclosure: I was selected as a First Reads winner but never received my copy. I borrowed the book from my public library in order to write my review.----Having never read any books in the Bernard Gunther series -- indeed, I had not heard of it before seeing mentions on Goodreads -- I was not sur...

from johnwbeha

It amazes me that Phillip Kerr can produce this series in an apparently random order from Bernie Gunther's casebook without this becoming a problem to those of us who like linear progression in our series. This time he is back in the War investigating the Katyn Massacre on behalf of Goebbels; whi...