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Learn moreIt’s been 101 days since Dr. Felix Hoffmann’s girlfriend, Celine, left Berlin in a humanitarian convoy carrying aid to Kurdish northern Iraq. Now her coffin returns home. The story from Baghdad is that Celine orchestrated the very bomb attack that killed her, but a devastated Felix cannot believe that Celine would willingly participate in such an act. Certain clues—as well as questioning from German, Iraqi, and American agencies—further raise his suspicions.
Amid a web of lies and deceptions, Felix uncovers terrifying secrets that point to an international conspiracy. The closer he gets to the truth, the greater the danger becomes, and it could stop the doctor’s investigation—permanently.
This third novel in Christoph Spielberg’s acclaimed Dr. Hoffmann series takes readers into the dangerous—and dangerously absurd—world of intelligence services.
Cardiologist and prize-winning author Christoph Spielberg lives in Berlin, Germany, where his mystery novels have gained national notoriety. Spielberg was awarded the Agatha Christie prize for mystery writing and the prestigious Friedrich Glauser prize from the German Crime Writers Association for The Russian Donation, the first in his ongoing Dr. Hoffmann crime series, which Booklist called a “cracking good thriller” in a starred review.
Critical acclaim for the Dr. Hoffmann series has prompted the German ZDF television network to produce a run of TV movies based on the novels. Today, Spielberg continues to draw from his medical experience, writing novels, short stories, and providing medical care to his patients.
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“Spielberg’s stellar series kickoff, which won Germany’s Friedrich Glauser prize for best debut crime novel, introduces reluctant detective Felix Hoffmann, “a Don Quixote in scrubs,” who’s been an attending ER physician for eight years at a Berlin teaching hospital … Hoffmann and his girlfriend, Celine, make a winning investigative pair, and his endearing persona elevates this well above the majority of hospital-based mysteries.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Spielberg, a physician, made a bit of a splash in Germany with this first novel, and it’s easy to see why. This is a very well constructed book, with a protagonist-narrator who is strong, resourceful, and unwilling to put up with any crap. Three more Hoffman novels are due to make their first English appearances soon, but anything less than immediately might not be soon enough for readers who crack open this cracking good thriller.” —David Pitt, Booklist (starred review)
“Incredible . . . Dr. Hoffman jumps in with both feet in order to solve the case and takes readers along for the ride of their lives.” —Suspense Magazine
“I enjoyed the book immensely . . . This is an entertaining book, but I have no doubt that Christoph Spielberg will, like another favorite writer Robin Cook, make you think twice about going to the hospital.” —Criminal Element
“Readers who like a good mystery sprinkled with wit and a touch of sarcasm will enjoy the thrusts and parries administered by author Christoph Spielberg, who studied medicine in the U.S. as a German exchange student before he published this series. The novel is ably translated by Gerald Chapple, who must have enjoyed a good chuckle or two as he worked.” —Bookpage.com
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