Self's Deception (Gerhard Self Series)
Bernhard Schlink, Peter Constantine (Translator), Peter ConstantineBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.
Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective’s desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.
Synopsis
Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.
Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps. The result is a wildly entertaining, superbly nuanced thriller that follows one detective’s desire to uncover the truth, wherever it may lead.
The New York Times - Charles Taylor
Bernhard Schlink's weathered private detective, Gerhard Self, makes for pretty good company in Self's Deception, the third book in Schlink's Self series, translated here by Peter Constantine. Like any fictional detective worth spending time with, Self, a public prosecutor during the Third Reich who turned to private investigation, transmits a strong sense of being comfortable with who he is, imperfections and all.
Editorials
Charles Taylor
Bernhard Schlink's weathered private detective, Gerhard Self, makes for pretty good company in Self's Deception, the third book in Schlink's Self series, translated here by Peter Constantine. Like any fictional detective worth spending time with, Self, a public prosecutor during the Third Reich who turned to private investigation, transmits a strong sense of being comfortable with who he is, imperfections and all.—The New York Times
Publishers Weekly
In German author Schlink's meandering second crime novel available in English to feature aging PI Gerhard Self (after Self'sPunishment), a man named Salger hires Self to locate his missing daughter, Leonore. With little help from the father, Self tracks the missing girl to an insane asylum outside Heidelberg, where he's informed by a doctor that Leo has recently died there in an accident. Self quickly learns, among other details, that the death report is untrue, Leo's father is not really her father and that the case is connected to a top-secret government investigation. Self can be completely off the wall one minute—he lies outrageously to anyone who might have information and breaks-and-enters without compunction—and the next he's as comfortable as an old shoe, having a glass of Riesling and hanging out with his cat, Turbo. The eccentric detective is the big draw, with the less than action-packed investigation coming in a distant second. (June)
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