One of the Good Guys

Part Three

  • A 280-page tightrope walk on the edge of the abyss 
  • About the difficult subject of pedophilia, written from the perspective of the perpetrator and the victim

Ben Neven, senior criminal investigator, a happily married man who is highly respected by his colleagues, is believed to be one of the good guys. No one knows about his double life; that once a week he drives to a parking lot far from home to Adrian, an underage boy, forced into prostitution by his father.

As summer fades and autumn sets in, Neven becomes ever more deeply and hopelessly entangled in the web of his shocking double life. And Adrian gets to know Vera, a girl his own age, who shows him a life completely different from the one he knows.

One of the Good Guys is a meditation on people at the edge that will leave you speechless yet with a sharper view.

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  • Publisher: Galiani-Berlin
  • Release: 17.08.2023
  • ISBN: 978-3-86971-260-4
  • 208 Pages
  • Series: Die Ben-Neven-Reihe
  • Author: Jan Costin Wagner
One of the Good Guys
Jan Costin Wagner One of the Good Guys
Susanne Schleyer
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Jan Costin Wagner

Jan Costin Wagner was born in 1972 and lives in Frankfurt am Main, where he works as a writer and musician. His novels featuring the Finnish investigator Kimmo Joentaa were lauded by the press, received numerous awards (including German Crime Fiction Award and a nomination for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize) and have been translated into 14 languages. 

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