Greeks Bearing Gifts

The tragic murder of a Holocaust survivor leads a former Nazi collaborator to a killer he once investigated in a riveting WWII thriller. In 1956, an old friend in Athens implores Bernie Gunther, who's recently left the police force after receiving an anonymous death threat, to take a job as claims adjuster for an insurance company there. The job will keep Bernie on the straight and narrow, but his new client is Siegfried Witzel, the brutal former Wehrmacht soldier Bernie once investigated for war crimes. At first, Witzel's claim seems legitimate: He lost several million dollars in Greece during the war, when he served as an SS officer on an extermination unit that was responsible for shipping hundreds of Jews to concentration camps. And Witzel insists he wants to obtain restitution—in cash—from the Greek government. But when Bernie starts digging into Witzel's disappearance from the German army at the end of World War II, he uncovers something far more complex: Because some of Witzel's disappeared soldiers are still alive, including Siegfried himself, their Nazi past threatens their lives if they return home. And now that one former Wehrmacht soldier has been found dead and another missing under suspicious circumstances.