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      Self's Punishment

      by Bernhard Schlink
      Published
      Mar 2005
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      248
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      Gerhard Self

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      As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.

      Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self searches for a prankish hacker who's invaded the computer system of a Rhineland chemical plant. But his investigation leads to murder, and from there to the charnel house of Germany's past, where the secrets of powerful corporations lie among the bones of numberless dead. What ensues is a taut, psychologically complex, and densely atmospheric moral thriller featuring a shrewd, self-mocking protagonist.

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      First Edition Mar 2005 Vintage ISBN13 9780375709074 ISBN10 037570907X
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307427663 ISBN10 0307427668
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      Dec 2007 Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN13 9781780221458 ISBN10 1780221452
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      Dec 2007 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ISBN10 B000XU4UGM
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