Happy Birthday, Turk!
A Kayankaya Thriller
Jakob Arjouni
Translated by Anselm Hollo
The police don't care when a Turkish immigrant is murdered, but wisecracking detective Kayankaya suspects there's something bigger going on. Unfortunately, he's right...
When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local police see no need to work over-time. But wisecracking private detective Kemel Kayankaya, a Turkish immigrant himself, smells a rat. The dead man wasn't the ind of guy who spent time with prostitutes. What gives?
The deeper he digs, the more Kayankaya finds that the victim was a good guy, a poor immigrant just trying to look out for his family. So who wanted him dead, and why? On the way to finding out, Kayankaya has run-ins with prostitutes and drug addicts, gets beaten up by anonymous thugs, survives a gas attack, and suffers several close encounters with a Fiat.
And then there's the police cover-up he stumbles upon...
PRESS AND REVIEWS
“Kemal Kayankaya is the ultimate outsider among hard-boiled private eyes.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
"A worthy grandson of Marlowe and Spade."
—Der Stern (Germany)
"Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler."
—Tempo (England)
"Pitch-black noir."
—La Depeche (France)
"A genuine storyteller who beguiles his readers without the need of tricks."
—L'Unita (Italy)
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Happy Birthday, Turk!
Jakob Arjouni
Translated by Anselm Hollo
192 Pages / Paperback
ISBN: 9781935554202
$13.00 / $15.00 CAN
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Published: February 2011
