Fear: A Novel

Synopsis

You'd Die For Your Family. But Would You Kill For Them? I Had Always Believed My Father Capable Of A Massacre. Whenever I Heard On The News That There Had Been A Killing Spree, I Would Hold My Breath, Unable To Relax Until It Was Clear That It Couldn't Have Been Him. Randolph Tiefenthaler Insists He Had A Normal Childhood, Though He Grew Up With A Father Who Kept Thirty Loaded Guns In The House. Now He Has An Attractive, Intelligent Wife And Two Children, Enjoys Modest Success As An Architect, And Has Just Moved Into A Beautiful Flat In A Respectable Part Of Berlin. Life Seems Perfect -- Until His Wife, Rebecca, Meets The Man Living In The Basement Below. Their Downstairs Neighbor Is Friendly At First, But Soon He Starts To Frighten Them -- And When Randolph Fails To Act, The Situation Spins Dangerously Out Of Control.-- Dirk Kurbjuweit ; Translated By Imogen Taylor. Originally Published As Angst In Germany In 2013 By Rowohlt Berlin Verlag Gmbh Berlin--title Page Verso. First Published In English In 2017 By The Text Publishing Company, Australia--title Page Verso. Translated From The German.