Prague Fatale

Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again working homicide in Berlin's Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside Prague, where he has invited some of the Third Reich's most odious officials to celebrate his new appointment. One of them is the would-be assassin. Bernie can think of better ways to spend a beautiful autumn weekend, but, as he says, “You don't say no to Heydrich and live.”

Praise for PRAGUE FATALE:

“Much of the appeal of these books has to do with Kerr’s ability to communicate a rich sense of time and place… Thanks to the series’ settings, it has a moral gravity rarely seen in the detective genre. The mean streets Gunther walks down don’t come any meaner.”

—Mark Feeney, Boston Globe

“Just as youth is wasted on the young, history is wasted on historians. It ought to be the exclusive property of novelists—but only if they are as clever and

knowledgeable as Philip Kerr.”—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

“In Philip Kerr’s history-based crime thrillers, the setting is Nazi Germany and Gunther’s adversaries—whom he must not just battle but also accommodate in order to survive—include the likes of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust, [and] the evil is not consigned to the back of the stage. It is everywhere, and Gunther’s moments of heroism are unavoidably tinged with moral ambiguity.”

—Steve Dougherty, The Wall Street Journal