Field Gray
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FIELD GRAY
ALSO BY PHILIP KERR
THE BERNIE GUNTHER BOOKS
The Berlin Noir Trilogy
March Violets
The Pale Criminal
A German Requiem
The One from the Other
A Quiet Flame
If the Dead Rise Not
A Philosophical Investigation
Dead Meat
The Grid
Esau
A Five-Year Plan
The Second Angel
The Shot
Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton
Hitler’s Peace
FOR CHILDREN
Children of the Lamp
The Akhenaten Adventure
The Blue Djinn of Babylon
The Cobra King of Kathmandu
The Day of the Djinn Warriors
The Eye of the Forest
The Five Fakirs of Faizabad
One Small Step
FIELD GRAY
A BERNIE GUNTHER NOVEL
Philip Kerr
A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
Published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
New York
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A MARIAN WOOD BOOK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kerr, Philip.
Field gray: a Bernie Gunther novel / Philip Kerr.
p. cm.
“A Marian Wood book.”
ISBN: 978-1-101-51381-1
1. Gunther, Bernhard (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6061.E784F54 2011 2010045006
823'.914—dc22
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.
Epigraph
“I don’t like Ike.”
—GRAHAM GREENE, The Quiet American
Dedication
This book is for Allan Scott.
FIELD GRAY
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20