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THE EXCEPTION
by Jungersen, Christian (translated from the Danish By Anna Paterson)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385516290
- ISBN 13
- 9780385516297
- Seller
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About This Item
N.Y.: Doubleday, 2006. First U.S. Edition., with complete number line beginning with 1. Top of page edges lightly soiloed else fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, with protective mylar cover. Translated from the Danish By Anna Paterson. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Serbian torturer and war criminal, whom they have recently profiled in their articles. As the tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women’s move is suspect. Their obsession turns into a witch hunt as they resort to bullying and victimization. Yet these are people who daily analyze cases of appalling cruelty on a worldwide scale, and who are intimate with the psychology of evil. The cruelty which the women have described from a safe distance is now revealed in their own world. They discover that none of them is exactly the person she seems to be. And then they learn that Interpol has traced Mirko Zigic to Denmark.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Book.
Synopsis
A bestseller throughout Europe, THE EXCEPTION is a gripping dissection of the nature of evil and of the paranoia and obsessions that drive ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death threats, they immediately believe that they are being stalked by Mirko Zigic, a Serbian torturer and war criminal, whom they have recently profiled in their articles. As the tensions mount among the women, their suspicions turn away from Zigic and toward each other. The threats increase and soon the office becomes a battlefield in which each of the women's move is suspect. Their obsession turns into a witch hunt as they resort to bullying and victimization. Yet these are people who daily analyze cases of appalling cruelty on a worldwide scale, and who are intimate with the psychology of evil. The cruelty which the women have described from a safe distance is now revealed in their own world. They discover that none of them is exactly the person she seems to be. And then they learn that Interpol has traced Mirko Zigic to Denmark.THE EXCEPTION is a unique and intelligent thriller, heralding Christian Jungersen as a gifted storyteller and keen observer of the human psyche.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019367
- Title
- THE EXCEPTION
- Author
- Jungersen, Christian (translated from the Danish By Anna Paterson)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385516290
- ISBN 13
- 9780385516297
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Denmark
- Bookseller catalogs
- Thriller; Denmark;
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