Recently read: Philip Kerr’s A German Requiem

This is the final book in the trilogy published as Berlin Noir. It takes places several years after the war has ended, but before the division of Berlin. The protagonist, Bernie Gunther, who we’ve followed through the earlier years, heads to Vienna to find the killers of an American. Vienna has more food, more warmth, and more buildings standing than Berlin, but the horrors of the war still exist in the minds of all those involved in the conflict. No one, not the Germans, not the Americans, not the Viennese, not the British, and certainly not the Russians, can be trusted. This book, like his others, is well worth reading. It examines life in Europe as Nazism fades into the preliminary warnings of the Cold War.