Marilyn Stasio…the darkest and most disturbing of Philip Kerr's novels featuring Bernie Gunther, the former German police officer and wiseguy private eye…
—The New York Times
Patrick AndersonThe great strength of the novel is Kerr's overpowering portrait of the war's horrors…Sometimes I tire of novels about the Nazis. For lazy writers, Hitler and his minions are an easy symbol of evil, one they find more useful than jihadist terrorists, drug lords and serial killers. But Kerr resurrects the past to remind us that the fascist mentality endures, all over the world, even though swastikas and jackboots are no longer its outward trappings.
—The Washington Post
Publishers WeeklyBernie Gunther's past catches up with him in Kerr's outstanding seventh novel featuring the tough anti-Nazi Berlin PI who survived the Nazi regime (after If the Dead Rise Not).
