Montechristo

When Intercity suddenly stops, Jonas Bradt can not even imagine the adventure in which he will be involved. There is a dead man outside and Brad is filming with his camera the heavy atmosphere that prevails in the train dining room and asking questions to the passengers.

He works as a video journalist, but dreams of becoming a director, and his project, Montechristo, a story of betrayal, frustration and late revenge, has all the elements of a blockbuster – as long as one gives him the opportunity to do so. When he falls in love with Marine Ruiz, the dreams he had abandoned come to the fore again. Three months later his fate plays a strange game: two hundred-franc banknotes with the same serial numbers fall into his hands – both genuine, as bank officials assured him. And immediately afterwards some people enter his house and do it up and down, while he himself is attacked.

An excellent, up-to-date thriller about the world of bankers, stockbrokers, journalists and politicians by a great writer of our time. (From the presentation on the back of the book) “Martin Zutter’s writing is charming, ironic and elegant – one of the best German-language writers of our time.”

(Pascal Bruckner, Le Nouvel Observateur)
“Martin Zutter throws a man without qualities into the heart of the most unacknowledged secrets of the modern banking system … Montechristo looks like Grisham written by Durrenmat …” (Livres Hebdo)