In 1942, there are worse places to be than Zurich and detective Bernie Gunther h
as seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glam
orous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. The actr
ess, it emerges, is the daughter of a fanatical Croatian fascist, the sadistic c
ommandant of a notorious concentration camp and Bernie finds himself involved in
something much more sinister.
