Der Täter

by John Katzenbach

Miami 1995. Als seine Nachbarin Sophie Millstein erdrosselt aufgefunden wird, ist Detective Simon Winter klar, dass ihre Angst berechtigt war: Tags zuvor hatte die Holocaustüberlebende ihm verzweifelt berichtet, ihr sei der Schattenmann begegnet – jener Nazi-Scherge, der damals untergetauchte Juden ans Messer lieferte. Ist er zurückgekehrt, um die letzten Zeugen seiner Taten zu beseitigen?

Genres: Thriller, Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Detective, Adventure, Suspense

592 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine. He is married to Madeleine Blais and they live in western Massachusetts.

He left the newspaper grind to write books, racking up 12 novels so far, psychological thrillers that have made him an international success. His first, 1982's bestselling *In the Heat of the Summer, became the movie *The Mean Season , filmed partially in The Herald's newsroom ans starring Kurt Russell and MAriel Hemingway.

Two more of his books were made into films in the United States, 1995's *Just Cause and 2002's *Hart's War. A fourth book, *The Wrong Man was recently made into the soon-to-be-released French film Faux Coupable.