Prussian Blue

When former Berlin police officer and unwilling SS officer Bernie Gunther’s cover is blown, he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game that continues to shadow his life a decade after Germany’s defeat in World War II. The French Riviera, 1956: Former Kripo sergeant and adversary Erich Mielke of the East German Stasi has turned up. He wants Bernie to travel to London to poison a female agent they’ve both had dealings with. But Bernie isn't keen on assassinating anyone. In an attempt to dodge his Stasi handler—former Kripo comrade Friedrich Korsch—Bernie bolts for the German border. Traveling by night and hiding by day, he has plenty of time to recall the last case he and Korsch worked together…Obersalzberg, Bavaria, 1939: A low-level bureaucrat has been found dead at Hitler’s mountaintop retreat in Bavaria.