WINTER TRAFFIC

WINTER TRAFFIC is an epic novel of corruption, murder and the true meaning of justice, for fans of Peter Temple and Cormac McCarthy.

Sutton doesn't like the 3 a.m. phone calls. He left that life behind a long time ago, but this town has a memory for certain gifts. Sutton is a builder, good with his hands - but he's even better at taking things apart.

He should have changed his number by now - that way Rawson wouldn't have it. Sutton's best mate is a hero cop, but crime flows through him like a highway, a tangled sinker-line of all the debts he tried to drown. The names, the faces...

He should have died young; that's what real heroes do. Maybe Millar will do it for him. She's the hot young detective from Internal Affairs who still thinks intellect and integrity will take her places. If she doesn't watch herself, she might just find out which ones.

WINTER TRAFFIC is the story of a good dog living in a bad town. It's about dead judges and lively vendettas, risen princes and hard-falling saints. It is a book that speaks to the city and its harbourland gift for new bullshit and ancient truth: behind every great fortune there lies a terrible crime.

WINTER TRAFFIC
Deutsch von Conny Loesch
[PB Suhrkamp 01/2021]