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The Snowman

"Prose that penetrates the reader's mind like speed, fast paced, without an ounce of fat."—Weltwoche

He's found five pounds of top—quality Peruvian cocaine in a suit-case. Pur-sued by the police and drug traffickers the luckless Blum falls prey to the frenzied paranoia of the cocaine addict and dealer. This is a fast-paced thriller written with acerbic humour, a hardboiled evocation of drug-fuelled existence and a penetrating observation of those at the edge of German society.

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Having broken his addiction to on heroin at the age of thirty, Jorg Fauserspent much of the rest of his life dependent on alcohol. He died aged forty-three in 1987, run over by a truck at four am on a German highway.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 190 pages

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