Zelb's justice. Zelb's deception. Zelba's Farewell
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Gerhard Selb was a prosecutor during World War II, and after the war he opened a detective agency. Now he is in his seventies, he does not sit idle, and every case turns out to be a big surprise - usually unpleasant. A childhood friend asks him to investigate a hacker attack - and Zelb, who knows nothing about computers, but is not bad at people, discovers a dark secret from the past that would have been better off remaining a secret. An unknown customer unceremoniously demands to find a missing girl, supposedly his daughter - and Zelb gets involved in a frantic race, where there will be terrorism, phantom and real fires, betrayals, lies and madness. A chance acquaintance with a banker brings a seemingly unburdensome order - to find a secret companion of the bank - and suddenly people die for unknown reasons, financial frauds are revealed, the mafia emerges from the murky depths, someone is kidnapped, everyone lies, every now and then a fate-stricken man knocks on the door with unexpected news, and all this seriously threatens Zelb's health. Such a life would not be easy to bear, if Zelb was not endowed with charm, self-irony, the determination of a born bloodhound, and the friendship of people who are ready to support in the most bizarre situation ... In 1987, Bernhard Schlink, a respected lawyer and teacher, to some surprise of the public, suddenly turned to the "light" genre and together with Walter Popp wrote "Justice Zelba", and then, already independently, two sequels, for one of which received the oldest and most prestigious detective literary prize in Germany Deutscher Krimipreis; numerous awards for his famous novel "Reader" were still ahead. Schlink's Zelb trilogy is three thickly kneaded stories about the fact that behind the innocent facade often lurks horror, and that the past will always catch up with you, no matter how much you run from it.
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