The Purity of Vengeance, Jussi AdlerOlsen
The Purity of Vengeance, Jussi AdlerOlsen
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The Purity of Vengeance
A Department Q Novel

Author: Jussi Adler-Olsen

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Unabridged: 14 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2014


Synopsis

In 1987, Nete Hermansen plans revenge on those who abused her in her youth, including Curt Wad, a charismatic surgeon who was part of a movement to sterilize wayward girls in 1950s Denmark. More than twenty years later, Detective Carl Morck is presented with the case of a brothel owner, a woman named Rita, who went missing in the eighties. But when Carl's assistants learn that numerous other people disappeared around the same weekend as Rita, Carl takes notice. As they sift through the disappearances, they get closer and closer to Curt Wad, who is more determined than ever to see the vision of his youth take hold and whose brutal treatment of Nete and others like her is only one small part of his capacity for evil.

Author Bio

Political studies, an education in cinematography, as well as growing up as the son of a psychiatric doctor have given Jussi Adler-Olsen the insight to write on subjects as different as extreme mental illness and international conspiracies. He began his writing career with the international thrillers The Alphabet House, The Company Basher and The Washington Decree, after which he set his sights on Denmark, where his series about Department Q made him a renowned author both in Denmark and abroad.

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