Publisher's Synopsis
In 1956, General Erich Mielke is sent to the French Riviera to force Bernie Gunther to kill a woman. Bernie knows it's a suicide mission, so escape is his only option. While he flees, he remembers a case back in 1939 when he was he was sent to Bavaria to solve a murder in Hitler's second residence. This thriller involves two cases, two Germanys, yet one lone protagonist.
