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Kismet

Kayankaya's 4th Case
Published by Diogenes as Kismet
Original Title: Kismet
It all begins with a favour to a friend. Kayankaya's and Slibulsky's sole intention is to help restaurant owner Romario to get rid of two thugs who are blackmailing him for protection money. Then, suddenly, two strange, white-powdered bodies are found in Romarios's restaurant. Kayankaya cannot stop thinking about the bodies. He embarks on a search for their identity – and finds himself the victim of a search. By a Mafia gang about whose origins and leader no-one is sure. The only certain thing is that it is the most brutal and uncompromising group of gangsters ever known to have operated in the Frankfurt red-light district. ›Kismet‹ is about organised crime and war profiteers, about the stupidity of nationalism and the madness of the war in Yugoslavia, about »home« in the best and worst senses of the word. And about the longing for a great love. An unusual and rousing story, with precise, colourful milieu descriptions, breath-taking dialogue, fantastic wit: Jakob Arjouni at his best.

Crime fiction, General Fiction
272 pages
2001

978-3-257-06263-2
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»One worth waiting for.«
The Times, London
»As winning a noirish gumshoe as has swooped onto the mystery scene in some time.«
The Washington Post
»Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.«
The New York Times Book Review
»Will whet readers' appetite for the three earlier ›Kayankaya‹ mysteries.«
Publishers Weekly
»A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade.«
Der Stern, Hamburg
»This is true hardboiled detective fiction, realistic, violent and occasionally funny, with a hero who lives up to the best traditions of the genre.«
The Telegraph, London
»One worth waiting for.«
The Times, London
»As winning a noirish gumshoe as has swooped onto the mystery scene in some time.«
The Washington Post
»Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.«
The New York Times Book Review
»Will whet readers' appetite for the three earlier ›Kayankaya‹ mysteries.«
Publishers Weekly
»A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade.«
Der Stern, Hamburg
»This is true hardboiled detective fiction, realistic, violent and occasionally funny, with a hero who lives up to the best traditions of the genre.«
The Telegraph, London
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