Self's Punishment

by Prof Bernhard Schlink (Author), Walter Popp (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.28

  Sixty-eight years old; a smoker of Sweet Aftons, a dedicated drinker of Aviateur cocktails, and the owner of a charismatic cat named Turbo, Gerhard Self is an unconventional private detective. When Self is summoned by his long-time friend and rival Korten to investigate several incidents of computer-hacking at a chemicals company, he finds himself dealing with an unfamiliar kind of crime that throws up many challenges. But in his search for the hacker, Self stumbles upon something far more sinister. His investigation eventually unearths dark secrets that have been hidden for decades, and forces Self to confront his own demons.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $4.24

  Gerhard Self is a lawyer turned private investigator who's brought in to find out the person behind a series of computer frauds at Rhineland Chemical Works. He is of an age where computers are still something of a mystery, but as the threat of a major chlorine leak increases Self must employ all his skill to find the perpetrator before a catastrophe occurs. Beneath this plot Schlink works through the meaning of the Nazi past in a bourgeois democratic Germany. As a former Nazi prosecutor Gerhard Self is a wonderful literary character - a man struggling to find his place in the modern world, whose values are constantly challenged as he tries to make sense of the hand life has dealt him. SELF PUNISHMENT is a detective story with real depth.