Praise for Philip Kerr Kerr is the only bona fide heir to Raymond Chandler. -Jonathan Ames, Salon Bernie isn't one of those detectives who gets to solve crimes and put things right. Instead, he just tries to behave decently in a world where the serial killers run the governments and history itself may be the biggest crime of all. -John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air On any continent, in any decade, no one does melancholy better than Bernie Gunther, and melancholy, after all, is the hard-boiled mystery fan's emotion of choice. - Booklist sakriti opis