Quercus A Man Without Breath Kerr Philip

Posing as an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before him • A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to solve • Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?

1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's latest move in a string of varied careers sees him working for an insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience to call on • Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow German for a sunken ship, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no accident but an act of vengeance • And so Bernie is once again drawn inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As Europe prepares to move on to a more united future with Germany as a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is ready neither to forgive nor forget

'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' • So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder • The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer

Bernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse • He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house. Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD • The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside. If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery not only is his reputation at stake, but also that of Reinhard Heydrich, a man who cannot bear to lose face

France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail • Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory • But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet

As Berlin prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in 1950s' Cuba • Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant example of discrimination • Forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and the other a Jewish boxer. As Bernie digs to unearth the truth, he discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the new Germany to the world

Berlin, 1928, the height of the Weimar Republic. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice when he asked to investigate the Silesian Station killings: four prostitutes murdered in as many weeks, and in the same gruesome manner • Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case files before another murder occurs. Until now, no one has shown much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer • It seems that someone is determined to rid Berlin of anyone less than perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist • Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil is a work of immeasurable importance

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5 • This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man Without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate

New Inside Out. Upper Intermediate. Workbook with key (+CD) - Рабочая тетрадь с ключом к ответам серии «New Inside Out» • New Inside Out - многоуровневый курс английского языка нового поколения для изучающих английский язык на курсах или в высших учебных заведениях. Каждый уровень курса рассчитан на 100-120 часов аудиторных занятий • New Inside Out - один из самых популярных в России учебных курсов для взрослых - гармонично сочетает в себе последние достижения теории и практики преподавания английского языка и реализует личностно-ориентированный подход к обучению • Рабочая тетрадь предусматривает пересмотр и дальнейшую практику всех основных положений учебника, а также дополнительную практику аудирования, работу над произношением и комплексный курс письма

New Inside Out. Pre-intermediate. Workbook with key (+CD) - Рабочая тетрадь с ключом к ответам серии «New Inside Out» • New Inside Out - многоуровневый курс английского языка нового поколения для изучающих английский язык на курсах или в высших учебных заведениях. Каждый уровень курса рассчитан на 100-120 часов аудиторных занятий • New Inside Out - один из самых популярных в России учебных курсов для взрослых - гармонично сочетает в себе последние достижения теории и практики преподавания английского языка и реализует личностно-ориентированный подход к обучению • Рабочая тетрадь предусматривает пересмотр и дальнейшую практику всех основных положений учебника, а также дополнительную практику аудирования, работу над произношением и комплексный курс письма

Straightforward. Upper Intermediate. Second Edition. Workbook with answer key (+CD) - Рабочая тетрадь с ключами к ответам и диском с аудиозаписями серии «Straightforward 2nd Edition» • Рабочая тетрадь соответствует материалу из учебника и объединяет его, что обеспечивает более углублённую языковую практику. В конце каждой книги вместе с аудиозаписью курса находится программа Macmillan Reader, предлагающая дополнительную практику прослушивания и произношения • Эта версия рабочей тетради содержит ключ к ответам • The Workbook recycles the language and consolidates the material from the Student's Book, along with a corresponding page for each lesson from the Student's Book. A Macmillan Reader is found at the back of each Workbook alongside course audio offering further listening and pronunciation practice