Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel

Authors: Kerr, Philip
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC032000, FIC031020, FIC022090
ISBN: 9781101513811, Related ISBNs: 0143120727, 0399157417, 1101513810, 9780143120728, 9780399157417
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 464,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: This Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. 

During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twenty-five tumultuous years, Field Gray strides across the killing fields of Europe, landing Bernie in a divided Germany at the height of the Cold War—revealing a treacherous world where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted...
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