Detective Story

Product Description

As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war & injustice from the victims' point of view, sympathising with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told by a man living outside morality.

Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests & is given writing materials in his cell, & what he has to recount is his involvement in the surveillance, torture, & assassination of Federigo & Enrique Salinas, a prominent father & son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Preying upon young Enrique