Splitter

Psychothriller

375 pages

German language

Published Aug. 14, 2009 by Droemer.

ISBN:
978-3-426-19847-6
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OCLC Number:
403870360

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When I began reading this book, it reminded me of [b:The double|210190|The Double (Dover Thrift Editions)|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1388265212s/210190.jpg|236056] by [a:Fyodor Dostoevsky|7656068|Fyodor Dostoevsky|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png], with the atmosphere of Kafka's novels thrown in.

Marc Lucas is a social worker, miserable and grieving because he has lost his wife in a motor accident. He does, however, succeed in saving the life of a suicidal teenager. He sees an advertisement for a clinic that claims to be able to remove painful memories, and decides to visit it. He discovers that they are conducting memory experiments, and will give him complete amnesia, and then reload the pleasant memories, and decides not to participate, and leaves without signing anything. Then his nightmare begins.

It seems that his identity has been stolen. All the addresses have been wiped from his cell phone, his credit cards no longer work. He goes home to get medicine he needs to take because …

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Sehr spannend und immer wieder überraschend. Was ist real und was ist Wahn?
Bis zum Schluss blieb es spannend, die Fingernägel waren schon heruntergekaut - und das Ende! Interessante Auflösung, die das Buch (relativ) logisch erscheinen lässt.
Definitiv ein Must-Read :)

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