From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz comes this riveting novel about a torturer forthe secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story ofthe f... » 

From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertesz comes this riveting novel about a torturer forthe secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story ofthe father and son he ensnared and destroyed.Now in prison Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunctdictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell usingthem to narrate his involvement in the torture and assassination of a wealthyand prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to theregime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martenss mind weinhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent dangerof inertia during times of crisis. A slim explosive novel of justicerailroaded by malevolence Detective Story is a warning cry for our time. «