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Fear

Dirk Kurbjuweit

You'd die for your family. But would you kill for them?

Family is everything.

So what if yours was being terrorised by a neighbour - a man who doesn't listen to reason, whose actions become more erratic and sinister with each passing day? And those you thought would help - the police, your lawyer - can't help you.

You become afraid to leave your family at home alone. But there's nothing more you can do to protect them.

Is there?

'FEAR shifts our moral codes. It makes us sympathetic to violent revenge, accessories to murder. Do we want the victim to survive? No, we don't' - HERMAN KOCH, bestselling author of THE DINNER

Dirk Kurbjuweit

Dirk Kurbjuweit is deputy editor-in-chief at German current affairs magazine Der Spiegel where he has worked since 1999 and divides his time between Berlin and Hamburg. He has received numerous awards for his writing including the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for journalism and is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels many of which including FEAR have been adapted for film television and radio in Germany. FEAR is the first of his works to be translated into English.