Anybody familiar with Phillip Kerr's novels, featuring Bernie Gunther? [View all]

I'm reading the latest one, "A Man Without Breath," and I'm impressed.

The setting is wartime Berlin, 1943. Bernie Gunther is a police detective, trying to solve murders and stay alive, while dealing with problems from the Gestapo and Goebbels' propaganda ministry. Dark, sardonic stuff; imagine a detective story, set in that "Cabaret" nightclub. My favorite passage, so far, discussing the dysfunctional remnants of the justice system in Germany:

"By the winter of 1943, you found your laughs where you could, and I don't know how else to describe a situation in which you can have an army corporal hanged for the rape and murder of a Russian peasant girl in one village that's only a few kilometers from another village where an SS special action group has just murdered twenty-five thousand men, women and children."

Tough, well-written stuff.