A genre-bendingmystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating thepostmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noirnovelists.Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another,more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzlingconvergence
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782273417Dimensions: 178 x 111 mm
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It's a detective story that gladly upends some of the genre's stereotypes. It is a tribute to Durrenmatt's huge literary talent that this holds true even if looked at from a contemporary perspective Thriller Books Journal Spellbinding Washington Post Seldom have I found anything as hard to put down... a detective thriller stripped down to its essence Ready When You Are Breathtaking What Are You Reading For I eagerly await the sequel Bookbag
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