No Exit Press - More Beer by Jakob Arjouni

ABOUT THE BOOK

A Kemal Kayankaya Mystery

Four members of a radical ecological group are accused of the murder of the director of a chemical plant near Frankfurt. While admitting to material damage of the plant they deny any involvement with the murder. According to witnesses, five people participated in the sabotage but where is the fifth man? The defendant's lawyer hires Kemal Kayankaya to find him.

Born in Turkey but raised in Germany, Kayankaya encounters many obstacles in his search to unravel the complex riddle at the heart of this mystery, not only because he is a Turk but also because his acidic wit spares no one, not even the political and judicial powers who seem will stop at nothing to try and silence him...

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

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