Adler-Olsen, Jussi,
The purity of vengeance Jussi Adler-Olsen ; Translated by Martin Aitken. - First Edition. - 500 pages ; 24 cm. - A Department Q novel . - Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Department Q novel. .
Previously published as Journal 64 with a variant title of Journal fireogtreds in Danish.
In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties. New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners--the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil.
Translated from the Danish Journal 64 with a variant title of Journal fireogtreds by Martin Aitken.
9780525954019
2013033253
Police--Denmark--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Copenhagen (Denmark)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.
PT8176.1.D54 / J6813 2014
839.81/38
The purity of vengeance Jussi Adler-Olsen ; Translated by Martin Aitken. - First Edition. - 500 pages ; 24 cm. - A Department Q novel . - Adler-Olsen, Jussi. Department Q novel. .
Previously published as Journal 64 with a variant title of Journal fireogtreds in Danish.
In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties. New evidence has emerged in the case that destroyed the lives of his two partners--the case that sent Carl to Department Q. But when Carl's assistants, Assad and Rose, learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil.
Translated from the Danish Journal 64 with a variant title of Journal fireogtreds by Martin Aitken.
9780525954019
2013033253
Police--Denmark--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Copenhagen (Denmark)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.
PT8176.1.D54 / J6813 2014
839.81/38