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Basierend auf Fällen aus seiner eigenen Praxis als Strafverteidiger, erzählt Ferdinand von Schirach 11 Geschichten über die Abgründe der menschlichen Natur.

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Provocative, shocking and brilliant, these stories may change the way you judge the world.

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Meet Fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs out.

Meet Patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes like.

Meet the silent assassin who calmly despatches two Neo-Nazi thugs on a railway platform.

A nameless lawyer invites us to read an extraordinary dossier of violent and unspeakable acts. All the crimes have one thing in common: the guilty have never been convicted in a court of law. But however heinous the crime, the narrator shows how the human circumstances behind events can tell a different story.

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"Small literary gems" The Times

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Ferdinand von Schirach was born in Munich in 1964 and is one of Germany´s most prominent defence lawyers. Verbrechen (Crime) became an instant bestseller in Germany when it was launched in 2009.

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