Final (novel)
A novel by Andreas Pflüger , published by Suhrkamp in 2016, is final . The thriller is the first part of a trilogy about the blind elite police officer Jenny Aaron. The sequel was released in 2017 under the title Never .
content
Jenny Aaron is part of an international police force specializing in personal protection and counter-terrorism. The unit is so secret that it doesn't even have an official name and is only called the "department". In a failed undercover mission in Barcelona , Aaron loses her sight and parts of her memory of that day. With iron perseverance, the support of her father, a veteran of the GSG 9 , and true to the code of the Bushidō , she fights her way back to life. Five years after going blind, Aaron works as a case analyst and interrogation specialist at the BKA in Wiesbaden .
When the convicted woman murderer Reinhold Boenisch is said to have killed a prison psychologist in the Moabit prison and is only willing to talk to her, Aaron travels to Berlin and meets her old colleagues in the department for the first time since Barcelona. She soon realizes that Boenisch is only the beginning of a meticulously planned retaliatory campaign by the man who faced her in Barcelona: Ludger Holm, whose fate is more closely linked to Aarons than she initially knows. With his psychopathic brother Sascha at his side, Holm ensures that the next 36 hours will be the worst in Jenny Aaron's life. 36 hours in which she has to deal with her past, the truth about the mission in Barcelona, fear, guilt, forgiveness, humility, honor, love and of course death.
background
Andreas Pflüger tells from the perspective of a blind investigator who masters all the skills that the non-sighted can learn to perfection. Bernhard Sabel from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg supported him in his research .
The idea for this character came to him while reading the autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran , who went blind at the age of eight and nevertheless became head of a Resistance cell in Paris during World War II.
Connection to other works
The former BKA President Richard Wolf, who appears in the novel, was already involved in Pflüger's first novel Operation Rubikon . Wolf's daughter Sophie and the BKA investigator Jan Pieper are also mentioned.
Reviews
“Better than Bond. ... It's really been a long time since I read a book with such nail-biting tension. "
"... extremely gripping, versatile, full of action, always surprising ... It has what it takes to become a global success."
“You can always feel that Pflüger has dealt intensively with this blindness, has done intensive research, and at the same time it is written incredibly exciting, so that you keep holding your breath while reading ... and in the end you think: more of it. "
"Friendship, honesty, an alliance of the righteous ... an incredibly intense, a very, very good book."
expenditure
- Andreas Pflüger: Definitely. Suhrkamp Verlag , Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-42521-3 .
- as audio book on 3 MP3 CDs (784 minutes): read by Nina Kunzendorf , Random House Audio , Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8371-3402-5 .
References and comments
- ^ Report in Echo Online
- ↑ Review in Die Zeit
- ↑ Meeting in the WDR ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview in SRF 1
- ↑ Interview on ZDF ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
