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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


A Man Without Breath by Philip Kerr

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Also by Philip Kerr:

Metropolis, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Metropolis, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Greeks Bearing Gifts, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Greeks Bearing Gifts, April 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Prussian Blue, April 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Other Side of Silence, March 2017
Trade Size
The Most Frightening Story Ever Told, September 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Other Side of Silence, April 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Lady from Zagreb, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Prayer, May 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Winter Horses, April 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
A Man Without Breath, April 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Prague Fatale, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Field Gray, April 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
If the Dead Rise Not, March 2010
Hardcover / e-Book
A Quiet Flame, March 2009
Hardcover / e-Book

A Man Without Breath
Philip Kerr

Bernie Gunther #9
Marian Wood Books/Putnam
April 2013
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Featuring: Bernie Gunther
480 pages
ISBN: 0399160795
EAN: 9780399160790
Kindle: B00AI5APIY
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From the national bestselling author of Prague Fatale, a powerful new thriller that returns Bernie Gunther, our sardonic Berlin cop, to the Eastern Front.

Berlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death. For once, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels want the same thing: irrefutable evidence of this Russian atrocity. To the Wehrmacht, such proof will soften the reality of its own war crimes in the eyes of the victors. For Goebbels, such proof could turn the tide of war by destroying the Alliance, cutting Russia off from its western supply lines.

Both parties agree that the ensuing investigation must be overseen by a professional trained in sifting evidence and interrogating witnesses. Anything that smells of incompetence or tampering will defeat their purposes. And so Bernie Gunther is dispatched to Smolensk, where truth is as much a victim of war as those poor dead Polish officers.

Smolensk, March, 1943. Army Group Center is an enclave of Prussian aristocrats who have owned the Wehrmacht almost as long as they've owned their baronial estates, an officer class whose families have been intermarrying for generations. The wisecracking, rough-edged Gunther is not a good fit. He is, after all, a Berlin bull. But he has a far bigger concern than sharp elbows and supercilious stares, for somewhere in this mix is a cunning and savage killer who has left a trail of bloody victims.

This is no psycho case. This is a man with motive enough to kill and skills enough to leave no trace of himself. Bad luck that in this war zone, such skills are two-a-penny. Somehow Bernie must put a face to this killer before he puts an end to Bernie.

Bernard Gunter

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