The Curve / Die Kurve
Thriller
A sensational German ganster novel
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...
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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...
2025, 275 pages
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Dirk Schmidt
Author
Dirk Schmidt was born in 1964 and studied German literature and theatre, film, and television studies at Ruhr University Bochum. After an early phase as a scriptwriter, Schmidt worked for decades as a copywriter and creative director at various advertising agencies. He wrote his first works for the radio while at university, his first crime radio play in 1993, and his debut novel, Letzte Nacht in Queens, was published in 2003.
Dirk Schmidt
Author
Dirk Schmidt was born in 1964 and studied German literature and theatre, film, and television studies at Ruhr University Bochum. After an early phase...
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