A gripping alternative history thriller set in the Second World War, from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther novels.
Autumn 1943. Hitler knows he cannot win the war: now he must find a way to make peace. FDR and Stalin are willing to negotiate; only Churchill refuses to listen. The upcoming Allied Tehran conference will be where the next steps – whatever they are – will be decided.
Into this nest of double- and triple-dealing steps Willard Mayer, OSS agent and FDR’s envoy to the conference. His job is to secure the peace that the USA and Hitler now crave. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
With his sure hand for pacing, his firm grasp of historical detail, and his explosively creative imagination about what might have been, Philip Kerr has fashioned a totally convincing thinking man’s thriller in the great tradition of Eric Ambler and Graham Greene.
Darkly imaginative alternative history thriller from the global bestseller and author of the Bernie Gunther thrillers.
America, 1960. In Washington, DC, John F Kennedy has just been elected President. In Havana, Fidel Castro has been in office for a year, and with Cold War tensions rapidly heating up and the Soviets leading the space race, the thought of a Communist leader so close to home is already raising American blood pressure.
Anti-communist fever is rampant in the USA, with a paranoid establishment seeing reds under every bed. Nevertheless, the decision to snuff out the threat of Castro by hiring Tom Jefferson, America’s best assassin, to kill him comes from an unusual quarter: the Mafia.
But Jefferson’s very skillset that makes him the perfect man for this job also ensures he has no qualms in double crossing his criminal paymasters. Jefferson has no issue with Castro: his preferred target is someone much closer to home…
‘Mind boggling … keeps you guessing until the end’ Sunday Express
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners - after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed - are enjoying their own version of Babylon. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he gets a summons from Bernard Weiss, Chief of Berlin's Criminal Police. He invites Bernie to join KIA - Criminal Inspection A - the supervisory body for all homicide investigation in Kripo. Bernie's first task is to investigate the Silesian Station killings - four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. All of them have been hit over the head with a hammer and then scalped with a sharp knife.
Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another prostitute is murdered. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer.
Then a second series of murders begins - of crippled wartime veterans who beg in the city's streets. It seems that someone is determined to clean up Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's ...
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a “brilliantly innovative thriller-writer,” Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. The first book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, March Violets introduces readers to Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin — until he turned freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly detailed, March Violets is noir writing at its blackest and best.
Posępny kryminał i mroczne czasy. Wojna po wojnie, ludzka niepewność, ciemne interesy i bieda. Bernie Günther znów nie może komuś odmówić i angażuje się w wyjątkowo niebezpieczną i śmierdzącą sprawę... Bernie Günther pod koniec wojny dostał się do radzieckiej niewoli, z której szczęśliwie powrócił. Znów pracuje jako prywatny detektyw. Któregoś dnia otrzymuje nietypową ofertę od radzieckiego pułkownika znającego się ponoć z Emilem Beckerem z Kripo. Ów znajomy Berniego z przedwojnia, z dawnych lat berlińskich, siedzi w wiedeńskim więzieniu, oskarżony o zamordowanie kapitana armii Stanów Zjednoczonych, i grozi mu kara śmierci. Sprawa jest podejrzana i poważna, a Bernie ma otrzymać równie poważną sumę, jeśli przeprowadzi dochodzenie i spróbuje ocalić swego kolegę po fachu...
Straightforward Second editon to przede wszystkim interesujące treści, elastyczny układ oraz atrakcyjna szata graficzna. Kurs daje dużą łatwość selektywnego doboru materiału językowego, a tym samym pozwala rozwijać wybrane sprawności językowe. Każdy z poziomów przewidziany jest na 90 godzin lekcyjnych, jednak bogaty materiał zawarty w książce nauczyciela daje pełną swobodę i dowolność w zakresie rozszerzania kursu, w zależności od potrzeb grupy. Podręcznik jest szczególnie polecany na kursy general English dla dorosłych lub na lektoraty akademickie.
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