Who do you turn to when you're a terminally ill former mafioso who wants to rearrange your affairs and needs more than just a little help on your trip through Germany? Or if you're an American tycoon trying to track down the murderer of your daughter, who died in Berlin under mysterious circumstances? In these kinds of cases, you’d better call Carl. In years gone by, Carl ran the legendary youth centre ‘The Curve’ in the middle of the Ruhr region. But then he realised he had other...
Who do you turn to when you're a terminally ill former mafioso who wants to rearrange your affairs and needs more than just a little help on your trip through Germany? Or if you're an American tycoon trying to track down the murderer of your daughter, who died in Berlin under mysterious circumstances? In these kinds of cases, you’d better call Carl. In years gone by, Carl ran the legendary youth centre ‘The Curve’ in the middle of the Ruhr region. But then he realised he had other talents.
Today, he runs a kind of one-stop shop for criminals that is as risky as it is lucrative. And for jobs like these, only his best employees come into consideration: Ridley, a kind of mathematical genius, a drug and sex freak with style and brains, and the super-fast fixer Betty, the one with the hole in her heart. But for both jobs, the buck stops with Carl. Which is no big deal. Until both of them suddenly start to move in a completely different, deadly direction...
»The Curve is as violent as The Bible, but much better written. Dirk Schmidt’s novel about our elective affinities is a heart-stopping thriller.« Max Annas
»The realistically unrealistic world that Dirk Schmidt creates here is so beguiling that everything in it seems believable.« Sonja Hartl, Deutschlandfunk Kultur - LESART
»A book about lost souls, who despite the circumstances, fight to retain their humanity.« Die Presse am Sonntag
»With The Curve, Dirk Schmidt delivers a brilliant thriller.« literaturkritik.de A pitch-black coming-of-age story of an enchantingly strange kind – clever, straight, and refreshingly ill-mannered. 3sat Kulturzeit
»The Curve is as violent as The Bible, but much better written. Dirk Schmidt’s novel about our elective affinities is a heart-stopping thriller.« Max Annas
»The realistically unrealistic world that Dirk Schmidt creates here is so beguiling that everything in it seems believable.« Sonja Hartl, Deutschlandfunk Kultur - LESART
»A book about lost souls, who despite the circumstances, fight to retain their humanity.« Die Presse am...