Self's Deception (Gerhard Self Mystery)
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"Bernhard Schlink has found the time to write a witty, sophisticated series of detective novels featuring supremely likable private investigator Gerhadr Self" (OBSERVER )
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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.
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A great read
I loved this book and it's zaney lead character Gerhard Self. In fact I enjoyed it so much that I have brough the other 2 "Self's..... Read more
Published 12 months ago by faerievampyr
Oh dear
I don't often give up on books but I'm afraid I did with this one. I loved The Reader and had high hopes for another cracking read from Bernhard Schlink but found the plot... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2009 by peely
Ecoterrorism and American Military Bases in Germany!
Unwilling investigators are not very common in crime fiction, as far as I can tell, but Carlotto offers one example of the type. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2009 by Feanor
Secrets and Lies
A detective thriller, searching for a missing person by the name of Leonore Salger. There are so many secrets within the book and lies. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2009 by Harryy
Self's Deception
Crime novels - be they mystery, murder, suspense, thriller - require an interesting protagonist to work effectively. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2007 by Damian Kelleher
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