Execution of Justice
«The Swiss master of the astounding plot»
Sunday Times Crime Club
A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?
As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime.
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A respected professor is dead - shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?
As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic from
the master of the genre.
The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. This is a captivating neo-noir classic from
the master of the genre.
The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pushkin Vertigo
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781782273875
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«The Swiss master of the astounding plot»
Sunday Times Crime Club
«It's not that Dürrenmatt always took the road less chosen, more that he carved out an entirely different and perverse path through the literary undergrowth»
Crime Time
«The novel has the most wonderful collection of strange and charismatic characters. Ingenious... original... challenging»
Nudge Books
«A dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality»
Publishers Weekly
«Audacious... Dürrenmatt's compelling handling of his favorite themes--the confusion of criminal and victim, the slippery relation between justice and morality, the guilty burden of social responsibility--makes Spat's funny, sad nightmare less like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd than like The Fall or The Crying of Lot 49»
Kirkus
«Dürrenmatt has the gift to create unforgettable characters within a few lines»
LA Times