ISBN: 0006145221 
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hans Hellmut Kirst - Time for Payment
Fontana, 1977
288 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn | Translation of Alles hat seinen Preis.

Munich swelters under a broiling August sun as the heat-wave and crime-wave both soar to record heights. Student demonstrators gather in a peaceful city park under the interested gaze of that retired but far from inactive policeman Detective Superintendent Keller, late of the Munich CID. Just as the demonstration nears its climax, a neighbouring bank is raided and a plain-clothesman gunned down in cold blood. The unidentified raiders vanish into the crowd. Demonstration and bank raid coincidence, or a novel and almost undetectable form of criminal technique?
Having set the stage with his customary expertise, Hans Hellmut Kirst proceeds to weave a complex tapestry whose threads include kidnapping and murder, blackmail, corruption, and criminal investigation.
A Time for Payment combines a documentary insight into modern CID methods with the best attributes of a taut and fast-moving thriller. But, like A Time for Scandal and A Time for Truth, those highly acclaimed forerunners in his Munich trilogy, it also exposes the corruption that broods below the city`s surface the sexual and commercial venality, the creeping cancer that afflicts modern urban society.
Drawing on his incomparable narrative skill, which permits the simultaneous development of several seemingly unconnected themes and their eventual convergence into a tense and. gripping finale, Kirst has produced yet another enthralling and thought-provoking story of our time.


Fiction, Thriller, Mystery