Schlangenkopf

Ulrich Ritzel - German crime fiction award winner. A spring night in Berlin. A young man walks past the Old Garrison Cemetery, a Land Rover lurks in the darkness and slowly picks up speed. At the end, a dead body lies in the street - and former commissioner Hans Berndorf, now an expert in private investigations, seems to be the only one interested in solving this crime. Particularly explosive: The deceased was likely a victim of mistaken identity, and the actual target is still in grave danger. As Berndorf realizes this, he himself has already come under the radar of people who are three sizes too big for him. They will not allow a retired police officer to disrupt the lucrative finalization of the shiny deals they made during the recent Yugoslav civil war.