{"product_id":"field-gray-a-bernie-gunther-novel","title":"Field Gray (A Bernie Gunther Novel)","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eField Gray (A Bernie Gunther Novel)\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePhilip Kerr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780399157417\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMarian Wood Books\/Putnam\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e448\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler, the realpolitik of vintage John le Carre, and the dark moral vision of Graham Greene. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Bernie Gunther is the most antiheroic of antiheroes in this gripping, offbeat thriller. It's the story of his struggle to preserve what's left of his humanity, and his life, in a world where the moral bandwidth is narrow, satanic evil at one end, cynical expediency at the other.\" \u003cbr\u003e -Philip Caputo, author of \u003ci\u003eA Rumor of War\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A thriller that will challenge preconceptions and stimulate the little grey cells.\" \u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London), selecting \u003ci\u003eField Gray\u003c\/i\u003e as a Thriller of the Year \u003cbr\u003e \"Part of the allure of these novels is that Bernie is such an interesting creation, a Chandleresque knight errant caught in insane historical surroundings. Bernie walks down streets so mean that nobody can stay alive and remain truly clean.\" \u003cbr\u003e -John Powers, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e (NPR) \u003cbr\u003e Bernie on Bernie: \u003ci\u003eI didn't like Bernhard Gunther very much. He was cynical and world-weary and hardly had a good word to say about anyone, least of all himself. He'd had a pretty tough war . . . and done quite a few things of which he wasn't proud. . . . It had been no picnic for him since then either; it didn't seem to matter where he spread life's tartan rug, there was always a turd on the grass.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Striding across Europe through the killing fields of three decades-from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer's Germany in 1954, awash in duplicitous \"allies\" busily undermining one another-\u003ci\u003eField Gray\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a world based on expediency, where the ends justify the means and no one can be trusted. It brings us a hero who is sardonic, tough- talking, and cynical, but who does have a rough sense of humor and a rougher sense of right and wrong. He's Bernie Gunther. He drinks too much and smokes excessively and is somewhat overweight (but a Russian prisoner-of-war camp will take care of those bad habits). He's Bernie Gunther-a brave man, because when there is nothing left to lose, honor rules.\"\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Marian Wood Books\/Putnam","offers":[{"title":"Field Gray (A Bernie Gunther Novel) | Philip Kerr | Hardcover | 9780399157417 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks E 1766217","offer_id":49376711737496,"sku":"1766217","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51EUb-8WTPL.jpg?v=1783016001","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/field-gray-a-bernie-gunther-novel","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}