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Self's Deception: A Gerhard Self Mystery

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Self's Deception: A Gerhard Self Mystery
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Prof Bernhard Schlink
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 130,Width 200
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780753822272
ClassificationsDewey:833.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publication Date 26 June 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In Self's Deception, private investigator Gerhard Self receives a request to track down the daughter of Herr Salger, the Assistant Secretary of Bonn, who's been absent from her translation classes at the university. Repelled by the pomposity of the government official, he rejects the case. But an insistent letter--and five thousand marks--changes his mind. After discrete interrogations at her school and her former residences, and a quick survey of the local hospitals, it turns out she washed up at a psych ward where he's told she had fallen out a window earlier that week and died. He quickly decides this is a lie, and decides one of the doctors is covering for her. Self quickly discovers that his quarry was involved in a terrorist incident--but a terrorist incident that the government is clearing covering up. Self helps the woman escape, finds out his own client is not Herr Salger at all but another terrorist. Now the mystery becomes what exactly happened at the military arms depot that the government doesn't want made public.

Author Biography

Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.

Reviews

"Bernhard Schlink has found the time to write a witty, sophisticated series of detective novels featuring supremely likable private investigator Gerhadr Self" OBSERVER