![]() ![]() The real story is when we are trying to figure out why exactly the insurance company sends him to Greece and then gets caught between the Greek police, Nazis seeking gold, and the Mossad while lusting after the beautiful but shadowy Elli. The initial plot is that he is recognized by a dirty cop from an earlier book and is coerced into being an accomplice but avoids ending his story there and leads to a contact with an old acquaintance who connects him to an insurance company. At the beginning of the story he has escaped the Stasi, has a new identity, and is working with dead bodies in a Munich hospital. It is a great send off for our hero as he will be threatened by the Germans, Greeks, and Israelis while trying to solve multiple mysteries. ![]() The saddest part is that Philip sets the stage for another book where Bernie will work with the bandit queen of the Mossad but we know that we will never see it.Īs Metropolis is set in 1928, Greeks Bearing Gifts is really Bernie’s finale. ![]() ![]() Yes, we know publishing takes time but these are exquisitely plotted 400 plus pages (on our reader) with exemplary research and wonderful details Munich and Athens. It is amazing that Philip was able to create one published in 2018 and another published in 2019 ( Greeks and the finale, Metropolis) despite battling cancer and dying in 2018. We became aware that Philip Kerr died in 2018 so reading the penultimate Bernie Gunther book, Greeks Bearing Gifts is sweet sadness. ![]()
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