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Metropolis

By: Philip Kerr
Narrated by: John Lee
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"[Metropolis is] a perfect goodbye--and first hello--to its hero...Bernie Gunther has, at last, come home."--Washington Post

New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr treats readers to his beloved hero's origins, exploring Bernie Gunther's first weeks on Berlin's Murder Squad.

Summer, 1928. Berlin, a city where nothing is verboten.

In the night streets, political gangs wander, looking for fights. Daylight reveals a beleaguered populace barely recovering from the postwar inflation, often jobless, reeling from the reparations imposed by the victors. At central police HQ, the Murder Commission has its hands full. A killer is on the loose and though he scatters many clues, each is a dead end. It's almost as if he is taunting the cops. Meanwhile, the press is having a field day.

This is what Bernie Gunther finds on his first day with the Murder Commisson. He's been taken on beacuse the people at the top have noticed him--they think he has the makings of a first-rate detective. But not just yet. Right now, he has to listen and learn.

Metropolis, completed just before Philip Kerr's untimely death, is the capstone of a fourteen-book journey through the life of Kerr's signature character, Bernhard Genther, a sardonic and wisecracking homicide detective caught up in an increasingly Nazified Berlin police department. In many ways, it is Bernie's origin story and, as Kerr's last novel, it is also, alas, his end.

Metropolis is also a tour of a city in chaos: of its seedy sideshows and sex clubs, of the underground gangs that run its rackets, and its bewildered citizens--the lost, the homeless, the abandoned. It is Berlin as it edges toward the new world order that Hitler will soo usher in. And Bernie? He's a quick study and he's learning a lot. Including, to his chagrin, that when push comes to shove, he isn't much better than the gangsters in doing whatever her must to get what he wants. Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense
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Certainly realistic thrilling novel involving well defined characters es well es historical sites and customs. Good demonstration of effective traditional detective work. Twists and turns full of emotions and surprises. Superb narrator with exquisite performing skills. At the end of thus audiobook you feel like after a good three course meal!

Quite Good Metropolis

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Sorry, really disappointed. The story is long-winding and rather unimportant and boring (after 2/3 of book). Murder alone is not enough for a Kerr, it also takes historical background, political development, real nazi bastards to gain its usual charm. The reader is another disappointment to me. His extremely exaggerated "singing" voice is more fit for a comical opera, I find. There is sarcasm everywhere, it seems, even where none is intended. Maybe Bernie and Brigitta sometimes simply mean what they say? Let us hope the end at least will satisfy us more.

So far the weakest Bernie Gunther rendition

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