Farewell in Casablanca
Farewell in Casablanca is a novel by the Swiss writer Peter Zeindler , which was published in 2000 by Arche Verlag .
action
In his thriller novel, the author takes up his proven character Konrad Sembritzki again.
Sembritzki, originally from Luckow in Silesia comes, lives for camouflage as bookseller in Bern , but is actually BND - Agent . Now almost at retirement age, he must once more in outdoor use by Morocco in order of a more fine there toxic gas - affair to get on the track. There the poison gas yperite is supposed to be secretly produced in solid form on behalf of Iraq .
Accompanied by a dubious American journalist, the 60-year-old fights against his incipient nostalgic melancholy and encounters in Casablanca a barely transparent mess of secret service employees, journalists and managers who all want to play off against each other and in which it seems completely unclear who is originally responsible.
In addition, the extremely attractive art historian Lea Mahler, who even casts a spell over Konrad, who is 20 years older and suffering from amorous things, creates further complications. Towards the finale, the agent realizes just in time that he should serve as a pawn sacrifice . At the end of the book, Lea and Konrad Sembritzki stand at the airport in Casablanca, like Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart once did , to defy the old clichés - with no real chance of a life together.
background
After the previous novels about Sembritzki had accompanied the era of the Cold War - The Rings of Saturn (1984), The Circle (1985), Contest (1987) and The Shadow Agent (1989) - Zeindler left his hero in Trial by Fire (1991) against the former Stasi employees even after German reunification . After Der Schläfer (1993) had indicated the end of the espionage topic in his work, Farewell in Casablanca heralded its renaissance.
expenditure
- Peter Zeindler: Farewell in Casablanca . Sembritzki on a mission in Morocco, Arche Verlag, Hamburg a. a. 2000, 350 pp., ISBN 3-7160-2274-8
- Peter Zeindler: Farewell in Casablanca . Sembritzki on a mission in Morocco, Droemer Knaur TB, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3426621233
review
- "As in the earlier spy novels, dignified entertainment, well thought-out and never ostensibly spectacular." (ekz)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the change of perspective of his work: Frank Göhre (ed.): Trial by Fire: Kriminelle Sittengeschichte Deutschlands (1991) . (= Volume 9 of Kriminelle Sittengeschichte Deutschlands Krimi & Co), Edition Cologne 2008, p. 328.
- ↑ "I'm not a crime writer at all" - Peter Zeindler, four-time winner of the German crime prize, is 70 years old. - swissinfo.ch, February 13, 2004