It will be that every lawyer has within a potential defender of the crime, according to the client who chooses him. Or simply that the approach to the legal world excites some muses who end up submitting to the black genre, tired of inspiring higher passions of other times. The point is that Sebastian Fitzek es one more of the lawyers passed into fiction literature, like our Lorenzo Silva, without going further.
Una literature from the legal profession on which its authors overturn judicial thriller approaches; they tackle the underworld world (which ends up being accountable to the judge less than we would like); or they plunge into a black genre that connects with the subterfuges of a justice that is too blind at times.
At specific case of lawyer Fitzek What can be highlighted the most is its intensity in a set of frenetic works of psychological suspense that, rather than guiding us through bright courthouses, takes us into the dark corridors of the mind.
Novels in which at times you feel like a doll at the mercy of the unsuspected destinies of a wonderfully developed plot, in which you enter without possible reading remission. Any Fitzek reader shares this idea of ​​the magnetism of characters cradled in a spider's web, barely trying to escape to the extreme where it seems that the liberation from the labyrinthine trap may be.
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Take me Home
Who knows the time of his death has already begun to die. A juicy phrase that leads us to this story as the most sinister of prophecies, marked by a murderer turned into the Nostradamus of his own revenge or animosity.
It's Saturday, just after 10 pm, and Jules is on the phone. He volunteers at a telephone escort service for women who come home alone at night. He's never been in a situation where the woman on the other end of the line was truly in danger, until Klara's terrified call. The young woman is convinced that a man is following her, someone she knows and who has drawn the date of her own death in blood. And that day is about to begin.
Therapy
It will be a question that with this novel Fitzek broke into the publishing market back in 2006. The question is that almost no reader forgets this work above the rest. Perhaps the different plots developed in the 6 novels published in Spain so far are up to the task. But the fact of the discovery, of the first encounter with his literature ends up marking.
Under some premises Alfred Hitchcock, bordering on the paranormal, the particular situation of psychiatrist Viktor Larenz, alone and with his missing daughter, awakens an essential empathy. Invaded by despair, Viktor decides to take refuge, withdraw from the world on an island where he hopes to atone for his guilt since his own science cannot cure him.
But on that island he meets a woman who seems to have been waiting for him as if in a fate between sinister and clarifying.
The shipment
Fitzek's thing is to express the role of the psychatra facing his own dark side, the one where madness beats in the making. The figure of a psychatra in a thriller has always given much of himself. It is about exposing those who work and impose their science on minds to their own deepest fears.
The morbid, the pleasure to see someone who is supposed to know all the recesses of the mind plunged into the deepest of mental tribulations, is especially attractive for lovers of thrillers. To facts as obvious as The silence of the lambs I refer. Emma is our reference psychiatrist in this novel.
The poor thing was about to succumb to the predator who went after her after a chain of victims already under her belt. Apparently protected and entrenched in her house to avoid any risk, we are accompanying Emma in that chicha calm that anticipates what is to come. Because if the bad guy always has something to spare, it's ingenuity ...
If you were Emma, ​​in the same situation, would you agree to take a package for the absent neighbor? In a way it may seem interesting to try to naturalize the situation. Don't always lend yourself to the psychosis of lurking fear.
Perhaps that was the approach of Emma, ​​who tries to put reason before fear, as she has tried so many other times with her patients. But there is always a point of doubt ...
Once the package is at home, resting as a safe element, the fear surrounded by the loneliness of Emma returns. Morbid, curious ..., call it what you want, but the truth is that that package ... Emma ends up falling into temptation.
And what awaits her in that package is the worst of omens, the worst of nightmares. He could have chosen not to pick it up, but now it's too late ...
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Seat 7A
I have always found those claustrophobic stories in which everything happens between four walls. Because in these types of scenarios there is no other option than to get everything that each character has inside to get juice to a plot. Fitzek gets the juice and oil out of claustrophobic intrigue novels like this one or the one before it.
When we meet the psychiatrist Matt Krüger, a guy as loaded with as many phobias as his patients can have, we already sense a disturbing intention on all those practically universal fears, tamed by each one in the best possible way.
Flying has its certainly unsettling nuances, your life moves through the sky, without any control over what may happen and locked in a cabin sometimes overcrowded ... But Matt you have compelling reasons to travel from Buenos Aires to Berlin.
Her daughter Nele is going to be a mother and after so many years apart she needs that father figure who in her case was always a diffuse shadow. So Matt decides to return to his homeland in search of his daughter, ready to undo whatever knots that ended up separating them. "The plane is the safest means of transport," repeats himself up to a feigned conviction of Dr. Krüger.
Only, when everything seems to be ordering in a necessary calm, a call upsets everything. His interlocutor informs him of the particular ambush. One of his most violent patients is on the plane. Only he knows and only his reaction can prevent the tragedy.
But precisely that, the absolute tragedy, is part of the malevolent plan drawn up to make Dr. Krüger succumb to him. The 600 travelers are in his hands and that is when the psychiatrist's natural fear of flights shoots up into a frenzied and maddening adventure.
The small space of the plane becomes a sum of planes towards the catastrophe. Chapters that offer us the perspective of the macabre plan. The lives of Nele and his future grandson are in danger, but on the other side of the balance of the insane game all the occupants of the plane are arranged.
The only silver lining for Krüges is to trust his science, travel to his inner hell to face evil, that ominous plan that places him in the midst of a whirlwind of emotions miles from the ground.
