TY - BOOK AU - Kerr,Philip TI - Prussian blue: a Bernie Gunther thriller SN - 9781784296490 U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Quercus KW - Gunther, Bernhard, KW - Germany (East) KW - Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit KW - Officials and employees KW - Fiction KW - Ministerium für Staatssicherheit KW - Suspense fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Private investigators KW - Secret service KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd KW - Detective and mystery fiction N2 - The French Riviera, 1956. Erich Mielke, deputy head of the East German Stasi, has turned up in Nice, and he's calling in a debt. Mielke wants Bernie go to London with the vial of Thallium, to poison a female agent they both have had dealings with. Friedrich Korsch, an old Kripo comrade now working for Stasi, is there to make sure Bernie gets the job done. As Bernie bolts for the German border, he recalls the summer of 1939, when the body of a low-level bureaucrat was found at Hitler's mountaintop retreat in Obersalzberg. Bernie and Korsch have one week to solve the murder ER -