An original novel and somewhat confusing that the Croatian Zoran Drvenkar thriller, based in Berlin and who, having excelled in children's books, began thriller! Four friends who struggle in financial difficulties and flirt with drugs decide to form an agency called "Sorry", charged to apologize instead of others. The success was immediate. They help the businessmen and companies who believe have misbehaved with an employee to ease their remorse. Everything goes well until a mysterious assassin apparently eager to unburden himself uses the services of the quartet. Apparently only because everything gets complicated very quickly and trouble begins. The idea is quite promising and the text of the Fourth of tantalizing coverage. Original way, in the first chapters, the novelist puts in place the elements of the story by successively introducing the crime and the four central characters in the story. The author challenges the reader to expose what he discovered and that he will not find the characters. It is as in this form of modern theater in which the viewer is taken to task and where the scenery changes are in sight. The author begins by exposing its narrative material by keeping it flat before the reader's eyes, much like the craftsman who, before starting a project, set up his equipment and explain to his client how it will work. Each of the protagonists of this story is singularly characterized. The author varies the perspective for the characters on which spotlights. Members of the quartet are the subject of chapters that by alternating and whose title is their own name. They are declined in the third person. Other chapters proceed from a sort of kaleidoscope with different time perspectives: before, after, or personal: you, the man who was not there. The author addresses the killer in the second person singular. The second person plural is for readers who are called to witness. He even involve them in the first person plural: "And here we avert our eyes and ears. For this is a private matter ... "So much for the actors. Then, and only then, the author in the construction of narrative and thus the plot. The beginning is a little disconcerting. Drvenkar takes care to paint a detailed portrait of its four main characters and even killer and his agency method doodads. So we have to wait 75 pages to get everything in place. But we must wait for the page 102 that the plot really takes body. So, things are accelerating. The trap killer quartet and sinks its four members in a delicate situation. The whole is served by a sober and effective style akin to that of a script or minutes of a survey: mostly simple sentences, primary structure, descriptive, as written under the pen of a reporter . All these considerations can justify a number of criticisms of this thriller has been. It likes or dislikes. The fact that there is, behind a child in rape case is certainly a creepy thriller but is not a novel rose water and is necessarily based on an unsavory background of violence. It is also true that the end of the novel brings its contingent of violence difficult to bear. If one is not prepared, it is better to fall back on the Comtesse de Segur. It must be recognized Zoran Drvenkar some talent as a writer. If his style is, at times, robbed and almost journalistic, in other passages, he shows he can also use powerful images to translate strong emotions. It is a violent story that narrates the encounter and confrontation between people haunted by suffering. Executioners and victims, it is often difficult to categorize. The ending is quite surprising. In conclusion, a pretty tough book, a thriller made a muffled violence, steeped in pain. We must be able to follow through because of the content but also the length (496 pages). Sensitive souls refrain.
