When a snowstorm halts traffic on a German autobahn, drivers are forced to spend the night in their cars. As day breaks, scores of people are found dead. Theories are rife. Was it an argument? Was it drugs, revenge or madness?
At first everyone agrees that several people must have acted together. No-one could have committed such an atrocity alone.
It is only over time that theories come to focus on an individual perpetrator, and the Traveller is born.
As he makes his way across a country gripped by fear, he’s searching for his next victim…
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Originally published in German as Du by Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin in 2010.
Copyright © Zoran Drvenkar 2010, © 2010 Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH
Translated from Du (German translation) by Shaun Whiteside
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Contents
About the Book
Copyright
Praise for Zoran Drvenkar
Dedication
Part One
I
The Traveler
Ragnar
Stink
Ruth
Nessi
Schnappi
Stink
Schnappi
II
The Traveler
Ragnar
Mirko
Taja
Nessi
Schnappi
Ruth
Stink
III
The Traveler
Ragnar
Mirko
Taja
Oskar
Stink
Ruth
Mirko
Darian
Ruth
Stink
Nessi
Schnappi
Oskar
Ragnar
Part Two
I
The Traveler
Neil
Ragnar
Oswald & Bruno
Neil
Darian
Neil
Ragnar
II
The Traveler
Nessi
Tanner
Stink
Marten
III
The Traveler
Darian
Marten