Parker

Parker only has one week left. A friend, a veteran of the political scene in northern Germany, has invited him to Kiel to act as media consultant and speechwriter for a promising young politician. Parker needs a win, a contract, and some cash. Most of all, he needs a fresh start. It seems like he has never really stopped running since he left Hamburg for the US when he was a student. A globally connected work nomad, Parker always has one foot out the door when anyone gets too close. And that is exactly why his last girlfriend dumped him. Now he is back in Germany and Anneli Schneider, his new client’s ambitious and battle-tested employee, has begun to challenge him at every turn. Matthias Göritz’s latest novel is an exciting tale of intrigue, power and love that tackles the irresistible lure of success and its price.

Sold to Slovenia and Turkey.

Matthias Göritz, born 1969, is an award-winning poet, playwright, translator, and novelist living in Offenbach, Germany. He has published the novels Der kurze Traum

des Jakob Voss (The Brief Dream of Jacob Voss, 2005), which received the Mara Cassens Prize, and Träumer und Sünder (Dreamers and Sinners, C.H.Beck, 2013, sold to Slovenia, Turkey and Usbekistan), which received the Robert Gernhardt Prize. His fi rst volume of poetry, Tools, was released in 2012. In 2014, he received the William H. Gass Award while teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis, USA.