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"'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.
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'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
'Powerful and compelling, with a devastating twist' -- Times
'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)
L'autore
Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays The Visit and The Physicists, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels: The Pledge (adapted for a 2001 film starring Jack Nicholson), The Judge and His Hangman, Suspicion and The Execution of Justice, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.
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- EditorePushkin Vertigo
- Data di pubblicazione2017
- ISBN 10 1782273395
- ISBN 13 9781782273394
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine192
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