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Publisher Description
*Coming soon to Sky TV as THEN YOU RUN starring Leah McNamara (Normal People) and Christian Rubeck (Succession), *
The chilling new thriller by the author of SORRY
When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness?
At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone.
It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator, and the Traveller is born.
As he makes his way across a country gripped by fear, he’s searching for his next victim…
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Reviews
‘At once a road novel, a thriller that actually thrills, and a stylish experiment in point of view. It is also a novel of character, and it’s this aspect that lifts the book above the level of most contemporary crime fiction’ WASHINGTON POST
Praise for Zoran Drvenkar:
‘The kind of thriller, the kind of novel, that doesn’t come along every day … Stunning … Sorry thrills, and it thrills immaculately’ New York Times Book Review
‘As dark a novel as I have read in years…for those with quick minds and strong stomachs, Sorry is an impressive debut’ The Times
‘Very dark, very sinister, very original’ Joanne Harris
‘Shocking, compelling, disturbing’ Michael Robotham, author of Say You’re Sorry
‘Taut, tense and terrific’ Sean Black, author of The Innocent
About the author
Zoran Drvenkar was born in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Germany when he was three years old. He has been working as a writer since 1989 and doesn’t like to be pinned down to one genre. He has written over twenty novels, ranging from children’s and young adult books to the darker crime novels Sorry and You. In 2010, Sorry won Germany’s Friedrich Glauser Prize for crime fiction. He lives in an old mill outside Berlin.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Drvenkar's second novel (after 2011's Sorry) opens with a man known as "The Traveler" using a 1995 snowstorm to screen to murder 26 solitary drivers stalled on a German highway in 1995. This chilling account is rendered in the second person, as is the rest of the novel. The complex plot is confusing at first, but the primary story line involves Ragnar Desche, a ruthless career criminal, who is looking to recover drugs valued at about three million euros. He has already killed his brother, Oskar, who was holding the contraband for him in Berlin his teenage niece, Taja, eventually implicated in the crime. With the help of her "blood sisters" Stink, Nessi, Schnappi, and Ruth Taja tries to sell the drugs so she can find her mother in Norway. But what they find instead is Ragnar and his crew, on their tails in a violent and disturbing chase. Readers might question the narrative strategy of the second person voice, and they might wonder about how the various plotlines coalesce, but Drvenkar smartly ties everything up by the story's end.
