Krefeld’s classic confrontation between two vengeful adversaries works almost perfectly. But then there is the barking of dogs and the houseboat at Christianshavn.
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The first two chapters of Michael Katz Krefeld’s latest crime novel, ninth volume ‘The Avenger’ in the series about the lonely snuff-cock Raven, are some of the best he has written. A masterpiece that should be a lesson and a lesson for would-be crime writers.
An assassin is sent from Poland to eliminate a shady woman. In a laconic, clinical and economic style, we get the death scene itself as a professional job. In fact, the scenario mimics the opening scene of Graham Greene’s hitman classic ‘Pistol for sale’ from 1936. Synchronously – in a few words – we get a portrait of the cold killer, who has sat crookedly on the pot up in the Faroe Islands and even participated in too many murders. In a verbal flash, the reader is warned that this aging hitman is affected by age and disease.
Source: politiken.dk
