Damnation

Name: Damnation
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Beck
ISBN: 9781978615649

Author: Peter Beck, Jamie Bulloch

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 13 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 08/28/2018

Categories: Fiction, Cultural Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

Dead clients are bad for business, something Tom Winter, head of security for a discrete Swiss private bank, knows all too well. After a helicopter explodes, leaving behind the charred bodies of a client and a colleague, he teams up with Fatima, a mysterious Egyptian businesswoman.Together they follow the money trail around the world and back into the Swiss mountains, the NSA watching their every move. When taciturn Winter, a former special forces commander, closes in on the truth, they turn from being the hunters to the hunted and realize they are in a deadly, high-stakes race against the clock.Originally published in German (2013), now translated by Jamie Bulloch and brought to you by Point Blank (2018), an imprint of Oneworld, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize.Jack Reacher meets George Smiley in a thrilling opener to a breathtaking new series.

About Peter Beck

Peter Beck comes from Bern, Switzerland, where he studied Psychology and Economics and gained a doctorate. He went on to do an MBA in the UK at Manchester Business School. He has a black belt in judo, was an executive board member of a large Swiss company and sat on several non-executive boards. Today he is his own boss and divides his time between writing the Tom Winter thrillers and supporting businesses in shaping their corporate culture. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and the German-speaking crime writers' association, Syndikat. He writes in German and is fluent in English. DAMNATION is his debut in English. The thriller was originally published in German (Emons 2013), now translated by Jamie Bulloch and brought to you by Point Blank (2018), an imprint of Oneworld, twice winner of the Man Booker Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tripfiction on March 12, 2018

Thriller set in SWITZERLAND This review first appeared on our blog, where the translator, Jamie Bulloch also shares some thoughts and insights: [URL not allowed]-... Damnation is a brilliant thriller, everything a page turner should be… It is firmly set in Switzerland with side excu......more

Goodreads review by Denise on January 18, 2018

Winter ist Sicherheitschef einer privaten, schweizer Bank. Sein Geschäft läuft dann am besten, wenn man ihn nicht bemerkt. Bei einem Helikopterabsturz kommen seine rechte Hand und ein hochrangiger Kunde der Bank ums Leben. Winter glaubt nicht an einen Unfall und stellt Nachforschungen an. Doch das g......more

Goodreads review by Maria on March 04, 2025

A thourough and concise image of the system and its capitalistic warfare of economics, in the swirling heart of it: Switzerland.......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on July 22, 2018

When I first saw the cover to Peter Beck’s “Damnation” I almost read it as “Dam Nation” and it could have been. There were a couple of dams mentioned and there were several countries mentioned, but “Damnation” it is. I enjoyed Damnation. It’s a long book, maybe too long, and took me longer than expec......more