Self's deception
By: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780753822272
Subjects: Private investigators; Fiction; Missing persons; Investigation; Terrorism
Work titles: Selb's Betrug
Description: Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix. Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward at a local hospital, where he is made to believe that Leo fell from a window and died. Self soon discovers, however, that Leo is alive and well and that she was involved in a terrorist incident the government is feverishly trying to keep under wraps.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.

Translated from the German.