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FIELD GRAY by Philip Kerr
Its Number 7 of the Bernie Gunther series of Nazi Noir.
In 1954 Bernie Gunther flees Cuba ahead of Batista's military who want him to interrogate Castro's rebels. Bernie flees with a hot looking prostitute who's also on the lam, because she's also a communist the military wants to execute (she assassinated a Batista officer.
Then the US Navy grabs them at sea. Senorita Hotstuff shoots one of the swabbies (a former lover) who knows too much about her. The Navy then hands Bernie over to the CIA, who pass him around the Allied Powers in Germany, to interrogate him about Nazi atrocities of WW2.
The rest of the book is interrogation dialogue and navel gazing and soul searching. The one constant in all of Kerr's novels is: Bernie's wives and girl friends always die. Reminds of the Willie Nelson song about all the girls he luved.
Kerr writes well, as good as Raymond Chandler, but cannot end a book to save his life. Its always a WTF let down. That said, his books are always a spell-binding expose of government, and the Americans are no better than the Nazis or Stalinists. Government is always a shootout between Al Capone and Lucky Luciano where the public gets the ass fulla caps when the smoke clears.
4 STARZ
Its Number 7 of the Bernie Gunther series of Nazi Noir.
In 1954 Bernie Gunther flees Cuba ahead of Batista's military who want him to interrogate Castro's rebels. Bernie flees with a hot looking prostitute who's also on the lam, because she's also a communist the military wants to execute (she assassinated a Batista officer.
Then the US Navy grabs them at sea. Senorita Hotstuff shoots one of the swabbies (a former lover) who knows too much about her. The Navy then hands Bernie over to the CIA, who pass him around the Allied Powers in Germany, to interrogate him about Nazi atrocities of WW2.
The rest of the book is interrogation dialogue and navel gazing and soul searching. The one constant in all of Kerr's novels is: Bernie's wives and girl friends always die. Reminds of the Willie Nelson song about all the girls he luved.
Kerr writes well, as good as Raymond Chandler, but cannot end a book to save his life. Its always a WTF let down. That said, his books are always a spell-binding expose of government, and the Americans are no better than the Nazis or Stalinists. Government is always a shootout between Al Capone and Lucky Luciano where the public gets the ass fulla caps when the smoke clears.
4 STARZ
