{"product_id":"greeks-bearing-gifts-paperback","title":"Greeks Bearing Gifts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Kerr\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vicious murder puts Bernie Gunther on the trail of World War 2 criminals in Greece in this riveting historical thriller in Philip Kerr's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling series.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMunich, 1956.\u003c\/i\u003e Bernie Gunther has a new name, a chip on his shoulder, and a dead-end career when an old friend arrives to repay a debt and encourages \"Christoph Ganz\" to take a job as a claims adjuster in a major German insurance company with a client in Athens, Greece. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnder the cover of his new identity, Bernie begins to investigate a claim by Siegfried Witzel, a brutish former Wehrmacht soldier who served in Greece during the war. Witzel's claimed losses are large, and, even worse, they may be the stolen spoils of Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz. But when Bernie tries to confront Witzel, he finds that someone else has gotten to him first, leaving a corpse in his place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEnter Lieutenant Leventis, who recognizes in this case the highly grotesque style of a killer he investigated during the height of the war. Back then, a young Leventis suspected an S.S. officer whose connection to the German government made him untouchable. He's kept that man's name in his memory all these years, waiting for his second chance at justice... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWorking together, Leventis and Bernie hope to put their cases--new and old--to bed. But there's a much more sinister truth to acknowledge: A killer has returned to Athens...one who may have never left.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Kerr\u003c\/b\u003e was the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the acclaimed Bernie Gunther novels, three of which--\u003ci\u003eField Gray\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lady from Zagreb\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrussian Blue\u003c\/i\u003e--were finalists for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Kerr also won several Shamus Awards and the British Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction. Just before his death in 2018, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. As P.B. Kerr, he was the author of the much-loved young adult fantasy series Children of the Lamp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 544\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765349122336,"sku":"9780399185212","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7ea2929ab1ec99b21d2fdbd84f09557a.webp?v=1780266735","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/greeks-bearing-gifts-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}