The Lady From Zagreb: A hard-boiled detective thriller set during WWII

Philip Kerr

Apr 2015 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD

Summer, 1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will provoke . . .

One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern Front, a superior gives him another task that seems straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much choice - the superior is Goebbels himself.

But Dresner's father hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.

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PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR

'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS

'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST

'One of the most memorable and original characters' THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Bitterly, darkly funny' SUNDAY HERALD

Ratings and reviews

Fallen hopelessly for Bernie Gunther, though 'the lady from Zagreb' feels a little less round than some of the other books. Almost as if it was hurriedly written. The Author comments himself that Bernie does let some things slide, that ordinarily he would not. Usually Bernie would find some mephistophelean means of resolving such items.

The Lady From Zagreb

About the author

Philip Kerr has written over thirty books of which the best-known are the internationally renowned and bestselling Bernie Gunther series. The sixth book in the series, If the Dead Rise Not, won the CWA Historical Dagger. His other works include several standalone thrillers, non-fiction and an acclaimed series for younger readers, The Children of the Lamp. Philip died in March 2018, days before the publication of his 13th Bernie Gunther thriller, Greeks Bearing Gifts. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature shortly before his death.