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When the body of an old tramp, Jake Kuper, is found in a secluded Amsterdam park, Dutch police detective Van Hijn is convinced this is the tenth victim of the serial killer stalking the city. Except, all previous victims were young, female and beautiful...
On the corpse Van Hijn finds contact details for Jon Reed, an Englishman who befriended Jake in London shortly before the murder. Van Hijn summons Jon to Amsterdam to fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw.
But was Jake really a tramp? What discovery did he make about his identity that led him to life on the streets? And did his fate lie not in the hands of a serial killer - but in the death camps of the Holocaust 50 years before . . . ?
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When the body of a tramp, Jake Colby, is found in a secluded Amsterdam park, Dutch police detective Ronald Van Hijn believes that this is the ninth victim of the serial killer stalking the city. Yet, all previous victims were young, female and beautiful. What could have made the killer change his MO?
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On the corpse Van Hijn finds contact details for Jon Reed, an Englishman who befriended Jake in London shortly before the murder. Van Hijn summons Jon to Amsterdam to identify the body and so sets him on his own journey of discovery.
Was Jake really a tramp? What revelation about his identity led him to a life on the streets? And did his fate lie not in the hands of a serial killer but in the horror of the Holocaust death camps some 60 years before?
The Devil's Playground is a thought-provoking debut crime thriller from a stunning new young talent.
'A page-turner of a thriller’ -- Metro
'Impressive ... a meditation on representations of violence decanted into a crime thriller’ -- Time Out
‘A gifted writer ... deserves to be the thriller of the summer’ -- Economist
‘Ambitious, audacious, powerful’ -- Observer
'Impressive ... a meditation on representations of violence decanted into a crime thriller’ -- Time Out
‘A gifted writer ... deserves to be the thriller of the summer’ -- Economist
‘Ambitious, audacious, powerful’ -- Observer
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- PublisherMichael Joseph
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0718146506
- ISBN 13 9780718146504
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages464
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The Devil's Playground
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