Wolfgang Schorlau: The Munich conspiracy
I had been completely unaware that there is a political thriller author are in Germany, just his fifth book published ( "The Munich conspiracy. Dengler's fifth case" , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 2009) and has invented to an investigator named Georg Dengler, the comparisons with other successful investigators of the crime scene need not fear.
Because I started to coincide with the 5th book of the series Dengler, I had to soon give account of how little I actually knew about the Oktoberfest bombing in 1980, which soon will mark the 30th time.
This early German "9/11" today seems to be almost completely disappeared from the public consciousness, even though it really should not be so both from human and from most current reasons.
The terrible bombing on 26/09/1980 left the entrance of the Oktoberfest like a battlefield, 13 people died and over 200 were injured, 68 seriously people thereof; they have since been defaced or continue to live with missing limbs. Nevertheless, the event looks to his victims as a sunk "black hole".
Wolfgang Schorlau , ie as the author of crime fiction, writes close to the wind, ie, on the facts, without that the plot would work somehow constructed very close. However, he is also kept manageable. Just the idea that the facts are just not fiction, but part of our yesterday BEEN past, handed me even as a stress factor. Since it did not matter to me that the crime presents the different characters just psychologically adapted. Or that in some places Schorlau left background comes pretty cliché.
Of course, I was wondering how Schorlau came to his detailed knowledge of the facts and background. This question is answered very end of the book from him like this: (more ...)
