A Man Without Breath

Bernie Gunther, protagonist of the Philip Kerr mysteries set in World War II Germany, confronts brutal murder cases head-on in his latest war-torn adventure, A German Requiem. When Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels asks Bernie to investigate a Soviet atrocity, Bernie agrees because he’s skeptical of his superior officers’ claims that Hitler is winning the war. Although he struggles with the Prussian military elite, who consider him “rough-edged,” Bernie doggedly pursues the case: first by uncovering the identity of a brutal killer; and then by using this information to save his own life.