Paperback edition of the latest spy novel featuring Bernie Gunther. It's 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. When he tries to escape, the US Navy capture him, and he's flown back to Berlin, where he's told he can either work for French intelligence or hang for murder. Kerr won the Ellis Peters Award for his novel }If The Dead Rise Not{, and his sales rise with each Gunther novel. 'Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther is a one-off...' }The Times It is 1954 and Bernie Gunther 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