The Pledge

The mysterious and unbearably tense tale of a detective's obsessive pursuit of a child murderer, from one of the post-war era's greatest writers in German
When a young girl is found brutally murdered in a Swiss mountain forest, the brilliant Inspector Matthai can't put the case behind him. Not even when a local felon is arrested. Not even once the suspect has confessed.
Matthai promises the girl's mother that he will stop at nothing to find the real killer.
Adapted into a Hollywood film,
The Pledge
is the chilling story of a man in desperate search of the truth. A man driven to sacrifice everything, to commit acts of cruelty and obsession in a desperate search for a killer he can't find.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
(1921-1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist, most famous for his plays
The Visit
and
The Physicists
, which earned him a reputation as one of the greatest playwrights in the German language. He also wrote four highly regarded crime novels -
The Pledge
,
The Judge and His Hangman
,
Suspicion
and
The Execution of Justice
, all of which will be published by Pushkin Vertigo.
160 pages.
Date of Publication: 30/07/2026