I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.

The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes the whole thing have a greater resonance.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

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