Ebook {Epub PDF} The One from the Other by Philip Kerr

The novel's title "The One from the Other" is culled from a Reinhold Niebuhr quote about knowing the difference between the things in life we can change and those things that cannot be changed. This novel is set in in drab postwar Germany and Austria. The novel is narrated by Philip Kerr's character Bernard Gunther/5(). Bernie Gunther is the ideal narrator for Philip Kerr's bleak tale of the dirty deals made by victors and vanquished alike in post-war Germany. Having learned that there's no way to distinguish 'the one from the other', the cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to see through the deceit and hypocrisy of Reviews: The One from the Other. ~ Bernie Gunther Book 4. Bernie Gunther, the tough, fast-talking detective who made his first appearance in MARCH VIOLETS in , takes centerstage in this twist-filled thriller that turned Philip Kerr's German trilogy into a surprise-filled quartet.

The One from the Other. Bernie Gunther, the tough, fast-talking detective who made his first appearance in MARCH VIOLETS in , takes centerstage in this twist-filled thriller that turned Philip Kerr's German trilogy into a surprise-filled quartet. Readers had to wait 15 years for Bernie's resurrection. The return is not disappointing. Bernie Gunther, the iconoclastic private-eye hero of Philip Kerr's dazzling series of historical novels known as the Berlin Noir Trilogy, returns in THE ONE FROM THE OTHER (Marian Wood/Putnam. The One from the Other. Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy—featuring the tough, fast-talking, noirish detective Bernie Gunther—is a publishing phenomenon that continues to win new fans more than fifteen years after its initial publication. Kerr has brought Bernie back in a highly anticipated thriller that will delight fans of the original.

The novel's title "The One from the Other" is culled from a Reinhold Niebuhr quote about knowing the difference between the things in life we can change and those things that cannot be changed. This novel is set in in drab postwar Germany and Austria. The novel is narrated by Philip Kerr's character Bernard Gunther. Germany, Amid the chaos of defeat, it's a place of dirty deals, rampant greed, fleeing Nazis, and all the intrigue and deceit readers have come to expect from this immensely talented thriller writer. In The One from the Other, Hitler's legacy lives on. For Bernie Gunther, Berlin has become too dangerous, and he now works as a private detective in Munich. Philip Kerr’s “The One From The Other” forces readers who may have long-held beliefs that WWII was fought for clear right vs. wrong reasons and that actions by forces on either side were also clearly right or wrong, to re-examine that belief.