Responsibility

Martin Rumsfield, a New Zealander working internationally as a museums specialist, lives in present-day Berlin and feels trapped by the demands of his job and his family. When a dubious acquaintance from his past reappears with a plan to swindle the swindlers, Martin is tempted by the glamour of breaking the rules. The darkly comic thriller plays knowingly with the clichés of hard-boiled detective fiction as it follows the money into farce, until one terrible moment shows Martin that the people dearest to him are now in mortal danger because of him.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

192 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany

First published

2006 by Victoria University Press

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9780864734969 (Victoria University Press, New Zealand)

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