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Detective Story

Detective Story

Kertész, Imre
Wilkinson, Tim

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0307279650
ISBN13: 9780307279651
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 10 2009
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.32 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed.

Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvement in the torture and assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time.

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