F., una conocida periodista de la televisión suiza, acepta el encargo de un psiquiatra danes de investigar y reconstruir la misteriosa muerte de su mujer, ocurrida en un país árabe. Cuando F., junto a su equipo de grabacion, empiece a indagar, se vera atrapada en una red de intrigas internacionales en la que intervendran la policia marroqui, unos servicios secretos y hasta un apacible filosofo.
Mientras acompaña al aeropuerto a un ministro ingles, el consejero cantonal Isaak Kohler detiene el coche oficial frente a un restaurante, baja, atraviesa la sala llena y, de un tiro, mata al profesor Winter, un aburrido humanista. Despues, Kohler no solo no huye, sino que esa noche acude a un concierto donde al fin es detenido. Pese a que lo condenan a veinte años de prision, el maquiavelico Kohler pretende demostrar que el no es culpable.
Un autor monumental y esencia, injustamente olviado. Asómate a sus páginas, no te arrepentirás. Rosa Montero. Friedrich Dürrenmatt es un escritor insobornable. Óscar López. La gran novela negra europ
Set in a small town in Switzerland, The Pledge centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim's mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer-with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich Durrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee's skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion. One of Durrenmatt's most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, The Pledge was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.
A genre-bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Inspector Barlach pursues a former Nazi doctor by checking into his clinic with the hope of forcing him to reveal himself, but then the tables are turned, and Barlach finds himself helpless in the clutches of his prey...
