Book description
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD
Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau - weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a…
Why read it?
1 author picked A Man Without Breath as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I found the main character, a German policeman, enlightening as he must work for the monsters of the Third Reich while struggling to keep his own honor and self-esteem intact. I enjoyed how Kerr depicted a character battling a multitude of internal voices and a deluge of confusing and misleading information.
The book is generally considered crime fiction; however, I found it to be more psychological suspense. The nested narrative of a story-within-a-story also held my interest.
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