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A quick re-read, actually a joint listen with my wife, to introduce her to this series. It held up well, maybe just noticed more the bit of graphic description of the brutality at the time and place (Berlin 1936), de rigueur in modern work, I suppose.
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Having by chance started with the most recent Bernie Gunther novel, I turned to this, first, one. Based in Berlin in the run-up to the war, this is a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novel in its plotting, characters, narration and dialogue. A ...more
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Having by chance started with the most recent Bernie Gunther novel, I turned to this, first, one. Based in Berlin in the run-up to the war, this is a Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe novel in its plotting, characters, narration and dialogue. A ...more
Very dramatic opening to the series with the fear in Berlin at that time palpable.
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