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I love the pitch perfect tone in this noir tale set largely in Germany over the period from the 30’s to the 50’s. If you define noir in terms of a cynical, loner detective hero who seeks justice in an environment of pervasive corruption, the lead character Bernie Gunther’s struggle to maintain some kind integrity as a homicide inspector amid the extremist forces of Nazi, Communist, and capitalist factions before, during, and after World War 2 puts this series in the position of classic noir in spades. Here we are late in the series, and despite this being my first foray with it, this entry works well for me because it puts his whole career in perspective through a backward facing plot.At the beginning of this tale, Bernie is working security for Meyer Lansky in Havana in 1954, where he has fled from position in Berlin due to being framed by powerful enemies. On a boat trip, he gets picked up as suspicious by the U.S. Navy and imprisoned in Guantamimo. Over a long period of interrogation at multiple sites, his background becomes interesting to the FBI and then the CIA, first as a potential Nazi war criminal in hiding and then as a source of leverage against current enemies in the nasty Cold War. Bernie’s skills as a homicide detective before and during the war were valued enough that his boss, the infamous director of State security forces, Heydrich (aka: architect of the Kristallnacht pogrom and later the Holocaust), ignored his lack of membership in the Nazi Party. As Bernie spins a complex web of truth and lies, one particular person in his past, Erich Mielke, becomes a focus for the interplay with his arrogant captors. When Mielke was a communist dissident youth in 1931, Bernie saved him from being killed by brownshirts, and Bernie’s perilous path through the war intersects that of Mielke in interesting ways that affect Bernie’s fate. I didn’t learn about how important Mielke became for Russia until the book’s afterword, so I won’t spoil it here (just check out the Wikipedia entry afterward if you tackle this book).Berlin headquarters of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 1926-1933. Heydrich, at right, rose to power as head of the SS through founding of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst) with a mission of violent suppression of anti-Fascist forces such as the KPD. Most of those exiled in Russia were killed in Stalins Great Purge of 1937-38--he didnt trust traitors or appreciate their Trotskyite leanings. Nazis march in Paris in June 1940, only 6 weeks after invasion. Fall of Berlin in May 1945.Axis dominated Europe in 1942. Division of Germany after the war. West Berlin is the small yellow spot in Soviet controlled East Germany.A key pleasure of classic noir comes from the dialog and distinctive internal voice of the hero. Here, instead of Marlow’s over the top metaphors about a slinky babe, we get the spice of a bon mot about the arrival of the corpulent Goebbels, (the “Mahatma Propagandi”) in Paris after France surrendered in 1940: “He looked like a malignant goblin on his best behavior.” As another great example for Kerr’s take on the feisty mind of our hero, dig the poetry in this deft capturing of the menace shown by a Nazi vice cop sent to occupied Paris: He smiled without smiling—the sort of expression a snake has when it opens its mouth to swallow something whole. He was smaller than me, but he had the ambitious look of a man who might eventually swallow something larger than himself.For a narrative voice, Bernie is in isolation so much we often get him literally talking to himself or to ghosts in his memory. At one point, he even gets to address a vision of Hitler, prompted by his stay in the cell where he wrote Mein Kampf in the prison near Munich used by the Americans for suspected war criminals. Even talking to himself, Bernie’s sardonic humor wins my heart:…I would try to engage myself in conversation. But this wasn’t so easy. For one thing, I didn’t like Bernhard Gunther very much. He was cynical and world-weary and hardly had a good word to say about any one, least of all himself.“I bet you had a difficult childhood, too,” I said. “Is that why you became a cop?” To get even with your father? You’ve never been very good with authority figures, have you? Trying to do the right thing has never really worked for you, Gunther, has it? You should have just been a criminal like most of the others. That way you’d have been on the winning side more often.” A metaphor for the tarnish on Bernie’s soul comes from the uniform he had to wear when the civilian police became blended with the SS, and he was put into the service of military intelligence. He tells his CIA interrogators:Before the war, the last war, I was a cop in Germany. An honest cop, too, although I guess that won’t mean much to apes like you. Plainclothes. A detective. But when we invaded Poland and Russia they put us in gray uniforms. Not green, not black, not brown, gray. Field Grey, they called it. The thing about gray is you can roll around in the dirt all day and still look smart enough to return a general’s salute. While working in Ukraine, Bernie gets captured and begins a long period as a POW with a trip in a cattle car to a Russian camp:Staring out of a gap in the planks on the side of our cattle car at the endless Russian steppes, it was the sheer size of the country that defeated you. …”How did that bastard Hitler ever think we could conquer a country as big as this?” said someone. “You might as well try to invade the ocean.”After all his travails, about the only long term personal possession he is left with by 1954, is broken piece of a chess knight once given to him by Lasker. The whole book is in a sense a lament over being a pawn so often and his yearning instead for the power to dodge like a knight:I might have called it my lucky charm but for the salient fact that one way or another I’d not always had the best of luck. On the other hand, I was still in the game, and sometimes that’s all the luck you need. Anything—absolutely anything—can happen as long as you stay in the game. And lately, as it to remind myself of this fact, the little black knight’s head was often held tight in my fist the way a Mohammedan might have used a set of beads to utter the ninety-nine names of God and bring him closer during prayer. Only, it wasn’t closer to God I wanted but something more earthly. Freedom. Independence. Self-respect. No longer to be the pawn of others in a game I wasn’t interested on. Surely that wasn’t too much to ask.And it isnt too much to ask for me to keep checking in with Bernie in other books to root for him.
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