Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece, Mavis, who is just one of the tne people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having just cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatred into murder. ...

Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, 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 ...

Antonio Martens was a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now in prison, 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 ...

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

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The year is 1095. Thousands of men, including many of the leaders of the Christian world, have assembled in a meadow in France near Clermont. Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem & the people shout, Deus lo volt!, God Wills It! The cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims assault the growing power of the Muslims in the Holy Land & will do so for the next two hundred years. Most able men become soldiers of the Cross, & many of their women fight alongside them. It is a time of great adventure, of great exploration & cultural change. Uniting Christian Europe in a common cause, the crusades defined forever the spirit of the West. ...

The year is 1095. The most prominent leaders of the Christian world have assembled in a meadow in France near Clermont. Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem & cries out Deus lo volt!, God Wills It! The cry is taken up, echoes forth & is carried on. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims rush to assault the growing power of Muslims in the Holy Land & will do so for the next two hundred years. Most able men become soldiers of the Cross, & when a man is prevented by old age or ill health, he sends his son. Women, too, go to fight alongside the men. It is a time of great adventure, of great exploration & cultural change. Uniting Christian Europe in a common cause, the crusades defined forever the spirit of the West.A magisterial recounting of this great & terrible campaign, Deus lo Volt! tells with stunning immediacy one soldier's first-hand experience of the defining war of Christendom. ...