By Philip Kerr
While he brought Bernie Gunther within the unique Berlin Noir trilogy, Philip Kerr instantly confirmed himself as a mystery author on par with Raymond Chandler. His new Bernie Gunther novels have received him comparisons with Alan Furst, John le Carré, and Graham Greene. A Quiet Flame unearths Gunther in Argentina, circa 1950, the place he- falsely accused of Nazi warfare crimes-has been provided a brand new lifestyles and a fresh passport by way of the Perón govt. however the tricky, fast-talking detective doesn't have the luxurious of laying low while a serial killer- whose crimes may perhaps succeed in again to Berlin prior to the war-is mutilating younger ladies. Taut, gritty, and loaded with evocative historic element, A Quiet Flame is between Kerr's most sensible paintings but.
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Weber believes it to have been nothing less than a world revolution, unparalleled in ancient history in its magnitude and extent . Paret writes that it began a great migration of the peoples of all Central and Southern Europe as well as Asia Minor ; it revolutionised the old world and created the basis for the new . Bachofer has called it a flood that determined the destiny of the world . We cannot, therefore, simply dismiss these events as invented myths or as historical fairy-tales for the comfort of the Athenians .
The expedition of the Atlantis people took place in the time of the great natural catastrophes . C. C. events took place which confirm the account of the Atlantis legend to an astonishing degree . " Apart from the contemporary inscriptions we have already discussed-which were described by Bilabel as " documents of the greatest historical value "-the results of numerous archaeological excavations help to throw light on this decisive epoch of European history, and enable us to reconstruct the course of events .
For nearly two hundred years they ruled Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean, which came to be known, after the leading tribe of the North people, as the Sea of the Philistines . In alliance with the Libyans they finally succeeded in the invasion of Egypt, when they established a king of military dictatorship . C. a Libyan, Sheshonk I, usurped the Egyptian royal throne . A comparison of these events, confirmed by contemporary inscriptions and extensive archxological evidence, and the statements of the Atlantis legend, show that all the statements of the legend agree with the historical facts .