A startling philosophical thriller from an immensely gifted young star of European fiction.

Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But after their graduation, their lives took very different paths; while Oskar holds a prestigious research post in Geneva, Sebastian worries that he hasn't lived up to his intellectual promise, having chosen marriage and fatherhood as an exit strategy.A few days after a particularly heated argument between the two men, Sebastian leaves his son sleeping in the back seat while he goes into a service station. When he returns, the car has disappeared without trace. His phone rings and a voice informs him that in order to get his son back he must kill a man. As Sebastian's life unravels, the only person he can safely reach out to is Oskar...

Vorwort
A startling philosophical thriller from an immensely gifted young star of European fiction.

Autorentext
Juli Zeh was born in 1974 and lives in Brandenburg. She studied International Law, has worked with the UN in New York, and completed her studies in Creative Writing. Juli has won numerous awards, including the German Book Prize, the international Per Olov Enquist Award and the French Prix Cévennes for Best European Novel. One of Europe's best young writers, her work has been translated into thirty languages.

Klappentext

A startling philosophical thriller from an immensely gifted writer. Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future Nobel Prize candidates. But their lives took divergent paths, as did their scientific views. A few days after a heated argument, Sebastian leaves his son in the back seat while he goes into a service station. When he returns, the car has disappeared. As Sebastian's life unravels, the only person he can reach out to is Oskar. Then Detective Schilf comes on the scene, with a most unorthodox method of uncovering the truth.