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ISBN: 9781842430460
Price: £12.99
Casing: Hardback
Format: Crown Octavo (186 x 124mm)
Extent: 256pp
Rights: All rights available
Pub. Date: March 2007

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Jakob Arjouni is the author of the celebrated Kayankaya novels featuring a Turkish detective in Frankfurt. Titles include Happy Birthday Turk, More Beer, One Man One Murder and Kismet. Magic Hoffmann, a separate novel without Kanakaya, was shortlisted for the IMPAC Award. He divides his time between Germany and France.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

It all began with a favour. Kayankaya and Slibulsky were only trying to protect their friend Romario from his protectors, men who were demanding hard cash for the service. It ended with two bodies on the floor of Romario's restaurant, their faces covered in ghostly white make up. Kayankaya is determined to track down their identity, when he realises that he himself is being pursued by a faceless but utterly ruthless criminal gang. A new element has broken into the established order of Frankfurt gangland: Croatian nationalists, battle hardened from the wars in their homeland. And when Kayankaya rescues the teenage Bosnian, Leila, from what purports to be a refugee hostel, the stakes get even higher.

Kismet is a brilliant novel about organised crime, the fallout from the Balkan wars, and the madness of nationalism from one of Europe's finest crime writers.

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade...." - Stern

"...Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler..." - Tempo

"...There is hardly another German-speaking writer who is as sure of his milieu as Arjouni is. He draws incredibly vivid pictures of people and their fates in just a few words. He is a master of the sketch – and the caricature – who operates with the most economic of means...." - Die Welt, Berlin

"...Arjouni is a master of authentic background descriptions and an original story teller..." - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

"...Arjouni tells real-life stories, and they virtually never have a happy ending. He tells them so well, with such flexible dialogue and cleverly maintained tension, that it is impossible to put his books down..." - El País, Madrid

"...His virtuosity, humour and feeling for tension are a ray of hope in literature on the other side of the Rhine..." - Actuel, Paris

"...Jakob Arjouni is good at virtually everything: gripping stories, situational comedy, loving character sketches and apparently coincidental polemic commentary..." - Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

"...A genuine storyteller who beguiles his readers without the need of tricks..." - L'Unità, Milan