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Résumé:
'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little
choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and
Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work
spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful
companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other
ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is
all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning,
he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a
proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder.
The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to
Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war
criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a
German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up
with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. But
Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up
with him - in a way he could never have foreseen. Bernie
Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced and
quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip
Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin, and
ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the
Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at
the top of his game.