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Violence
A lot
Blackmail; espionage; some violence; the British intelligence world is depicted
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Some
Some sexual content; the Riviera setting involves illicit relationships
Substance Use
Some
Heavy drinking; the Riviera setting involves considerable social alcohol
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific way that the Cold War Cold War recreated the same moral structures that Bernie survived in the Nazi period; the exhaustion of a man who has been pretending to be someone else for fifteen years
What this book is about
Bernie Gunther is working at a hotel on the French Riviera in 1956 under a false identity, when he is drawn into a blackmail scheme involving W. Somerset Maugham and British intelligence. Philip Kerr's eleventh Bernie Gunther novel moves the series away from WWII Germany and into the Cold War's espionage world, where the people involved are different but the mechanisms of coercion and moral compromise are the same. The Riviera setting is rendered with the specific glamour and darkness that Kerr brings to all his European locations.
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eleventh Bernie Gunther novel by Philip Kerr; French Riviera / Cold War setting
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