The Judge and His Hangman By Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Judge and His Hangman By Friedrich DürrenmattA genre bending mystery recalling the work of Alain Robbe Grillet and anticipating the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo noir novelists. Inspector Barlach forgoes the arrest of a murderer in order to manipulate him into killing another, more elusive criminal. This is a thriller that brings existential philosophy and the detective genre into dazzling convergence

living out the last of childhood

I have never known freedom

where the narrator's imagination wanders as he roams through the seedier parts of the darkened town instead of guarding the school buildings

Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco

I found stories I experienced

it follows three stories whose characters' fates are intertwined: gangsters on a chase through the streets of Manila

when Charlie is seventeen

particularly the coloniaL relationship with America

Unexpectedly

Michael Faudet’s latest book explores the fine line between love and loss

as well as the transformative actions which spontaneously occur within us as the spiritual growth is experienced

the Gladers don't know why or how they came to be there