The Pledge - Couverture souple

Durrenmatt, Friedrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0425178986 ISBN 13 : 9780425178980

Editeur : Boulevard, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Durrenmatt Friedrich

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'To add to the excellence of the novel's narrative, the reader also gets Dürrenmatt's provocative thinking on the flaws of crime fiction and police behaviour' -- Times

'Literary in style, haunting in mood' -- Guardian

'A chilling study of obsession that defies all reason' -- Daily Mail

'An absolute corker... One of the most ingenious and surprising detective novels you'll read' -- Mr Hyde

'As terse and assured in construction as the best of Simenon' -- Spectator

'Hats off to Pushkin Press for re-publishing this gem, and for planning to delight us with more of Dürrenmatt's tense, melancholy and incredibly seductive writing' -- Thriller Books Journal

'Unusual and arresting... Dürrenmatt is an accomplished and dramatic storyteller, and he has tucked into his short narrative some tantalizing moral questions' -- Atlantic Monthly

'Spellbinding' --Washington Post

'This spare yet potent book which conjures the most striking magic, entrancing with its chills, shocks, artful delights, and even surprise lyrical wonders' --The National

'Dürrenmatt's most famous novel... jaw-dropping' -- Crime Review

'Short, gripping and a compelling read' -- Col's Criminal Library

'There are precious few groundbreaking crime novels but this is one. And one of the very best' --Hits the Fan (blog)

Présentation de l'éditeur

"'It's a promise, Frau Moser,' the inspector said, impelled solely by the desire to leave this place.
"'On your eternal salvation?'
"'The inspector hesitated. 'On my eternal salvation,' he finally said. What else could he do?"

When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed.

Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer.

Adapted into a Hollywood film, The Pledge is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find.

"As terse and assured in construction as the best of Simenon" Spectator

"Unusual and arresting... Dürrenmatt is an accomplished and dramatic storyteller, and he has tucked into his short narrative some tantalizing moral questions" Atlantic Monthly

"This spare yet potent book which conjures the most striking magic, entrancing with its chills, shocks, artful delights, and even surprise lyrical wonders" The National

"Spllbinding" Washington Post

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boulevard
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0425178986
• ISBN 13: 9780425178980
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible