Review: A spellbinding account of a thirty-year search for justice
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2012
"The Kalinka Affair" would be front page news in the U.S. if this true story had taken place here, but the long, thirty-year saga occurred in France and Germany, with barely a blip in the news here. But American journalist Joshua Hammer has written a spellbinding account of André Bamberski's search for the truth about his teenage daughter Kalinka's suspicious death in 1982, and his campaign to bring the man he believed was responsible to justice.It's an ugly story about a predator who worked his mayhem on unsuspecting women for decades, but was never held accountable by the authorities, despite the mounting evidence against him. Was Dr. Dieter Krombach guilty of murdering Kalinka Bamberski, or was André Bamberski on a misguided vendetta to put Krombach behind bars? To say any more would give away the outcome of the story, but "The Kalinka Affair" was a stirring tale that grabbed me from the first paragraph and held on till the end. And even then, The End wasn't really the end, since the final chapter of the story is still being written in the courts of Germany and France.I've read a number of Kindle Singles, and this is one of the most intriguing stories that I've read.