THE NEW AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MOUNTAINCan be compared
(with no fear of hyperbole) to Stephen King and Jo Nesbø - Massimo Vincenz La
Repubblica.D'Andrea piles on the action and the atmosphere with the panache of a seasoned
writer Marcel Berlins The Times.Marlene Wegener is on the run.She has stolen something from
her husband something priceless irreplaceable.But she doesn't get very far. When her car
veers off a bleak midwinter road she takes refuge in the remote home of Simon Keller a tough
mountain man who lives alone with his demons. Here in her high mountain sanctuary she begins
to rekindle a sense of herself: tough capable no longer the trophy on a gangster's arm.But
Herr Wegener does not know how to forgive and in his rage he makes a pact with the devil.The
Trusted Man. He cannot be called off he cannot be reasoned with and one way or another he will
get the job done.Unless of course he's beaten to it . . .Translated from the Italian by
Howard Curtis and Katherine Gregor
