The Pledge

<p><strong>The mysterious and unbearably tense tale of a detective's obsessive pursuit of a child murderer, from one of the post-war era's greatest writers in German</strong></p><p>When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed.</p><p>Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer.</p><p>Adapted into a Hollywood film, <em>The Pledge</em> is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find.</p><p><strong>Friedrich Dürrenmatt</strong> (1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays <em>The Visit</em> and <em>The Physicists</em>, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels - <em>The Pledge</em>, <em>The Judge and His Hangman<em>, <em>Suspicion</em> and <em>The Execution of Justice</em>, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.</p>