Death Zones
$28.90
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
18 May 2017
Summary
Violence, greed, and betrayal await detective Heinrich Hoffmann as he investigates the murder of a German General.
A shocking murder: Belorussia, 1943. When a General and his wife are found dead, German detective Heinrich Hoffmann is put in charge of the case.
A single clue: There is one witness. A six-year-old girl provides him with an essential lead—a drawing of a bird.
Detective Hoffmann must uncover the truth: Hoffmann soon finds evidence of corruption at the highe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099593195 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 009959319X |
| Author: | Simon Pasternak, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 18 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
A stunning, dark and frighteningly authentic crime thriller. Death Zones is set in 1943, first on the eastern front and then in Hamburg. Simon Pasternak manages to convey the sheer horrors of both time and place in such a skilful manner that at times the book is hard to read yet impossible to put down
– Alex Gerlis, author The Best of Our Spies and The Swiss SpyExcellent – Natasha Harding * Sun *
Haunting… compelling – Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
Pasternak is a talented writer and vividly recreates the unbearable horrors inflicted by the Nazis… Death Zones is skilfully done – Antonia Senior * The Times *
A dark, twisted world of corruption and deception… Pasternak is unflinching in his portrayal of the period’s brutality, which is reflected in the invariably violent characters and the occasional raving sadists who occupy it * Real Crime *
An outstanding, troubling…and compelling novel… Brilliant… It is a testimony to evil and how it consumes its victims and corrupts its perpetrators – Hugh MacDonald * The Herald *
About The Author
Simon Pasternak
Simon Pasternak (Author)
Simon Pasternak is a Danish author, screenwriter, and publisher living in Copenhagen. He is the co-author of a bestselling crime series with Christian Dorph and has co-written two feature films, including the historical thriller, The Idealist. Death Zones is his first solo novel, for which he drew inspiration from his own family history and Jewish roots in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Martin Aitken (Translator)
Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish, including works by Peter Høeg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul. His translations of short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary journals and magazines. In 2012, he was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Translation Prize.
Martin Aitken’s translations of Scandinavian fiction are widely published. His work has appeared on the shortlists of the International Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, and the US National Book Awards, among other prizes. He received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019 and, for the first book in the Morning Star cycle, the US National Translation Award in Prose in 2022. He lives in Denmark.
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