by Brian Moore · Diogenes Verlag · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783257230963
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«Hetzjagd» is the suspense novel by Brian Moore, published by Diogenes Verlag in paperback (296 pages, in German).
A former collaborator and war criminal lives hidden in the south of France while being pursued; between suspense and espionage, the novel explores guilt, morality, ecclesiastical intrigues, and the impossibility of escaping the past.
Translation by Bernhard Robben from the English original «The Statement» (1995); volume in the Diogenes-Taschenbuch series (detebe 23096).
For readers of political thrillers and historical espionage novels set in France and the Cold War.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
