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Damnation (2013)

di Peter Beck

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Serie: Tom Winter (1)

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Dead clients are bad for business, something that Tom Winter, head of security at a private Swiss bank, knows only too well. When a helicopter explosion kills a valuable client and a close colleague, Winter teams up with the mysterious Egyptian businesswoman Fatima Hakim to expose the truth behind their deaths. Together they follow the money trail around the world and back into the Swiss mountains, the NSA watching their every move. As they start closing in on the truth, Winter and Fatima turn from being the hunters to the hunted, finding themselves in a deadly, high-stakes race against the clock.… (altro)
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„Die Strömungen der Luft und des Geldes waren nicht sichtbar.“ (Zitat Seite 135)

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Bei einem Helikopterabsturz in den Schweizer Bergen kommt Anna, Mitarbeiterin und persönliche Vertraute von Tom Winter, Sicherheitschef einer Schweizer Privatbank, ums Leben. Mit ihr der erfahrene Pilot, sowie ein arabischer Scheich, ein extrem vermögender, einflussreicher Kunde der Bank. Es war definitiv kein Unfall. Die erste Spur führt Winter nach Kairo. Als dort ein Geschäftspartner des Ermordeten ebenfalls bei einem Anschlag umkommt, ist Winter klar, dass jemand die geplanten weltweiten Investitionen mit allen Mitteln verhindern will. Eine deutliche Botschaft an Winters Chef lautet: Raushalten aus dem Nahen Osten. Gemeinsam mit der ägyptischen Geschäftsfrau Fatima macht sich Winter auf eine lebensgefährliche Spurensuche, die sie quer durch Europa, nach Amerika und zurück in die Schweiz führt.

Thema und Genre:
Dieser packende Thriller beschäftigt sich mit dem System der internationalen Finanzmärkte. Es geht um diskrete Banken, Anlagestrategien, Investmentfonds und unvorstellbar hohe Geldsummen, die hier zu verdienen sind.

Charaktere:
Winter ermittelt ziel- und lösungsorientiert. Seine Ausbildung bei einer Spezialeinheit der Polizei ist bei körperlichen Angriffen hilfreich. Er ist verschwiegen und hat Humor.
Fatima, die intelligente ägyptische Geschäftsfrau kennt die Zusammenhänge im Nahen Osten und unterstützt Winter dort, wo er als Europäer vor verschlossenen Türen stehen würde.

Handlung und Schreibstil:
Die straffe Handlung erstreckt sich über etwa 14 Tage, der Hauptprotagonist Winter muss unter enormem Zeitdruck ermitteln, was für den Leser intensive Spannung bedeutet. Dennoch nimmt sich der Autor Zeit für Beschreibungen der unterschiedlichen Handlungsschauplätze und auch das fröhliche Feiern am 1. August, dem Bundesfeiertag der Schweiz wird erwähnt. Diese Schilderungen erhöhen das Vergnügen beim Lesen, ohne jedoch die Spannung zu unterbrechen. Der trockene Humor des Autors zeigt sich in Sätzen wie „Die arabischen Flüche krachten beeindruckend“ und ebenso beeindruckend ist der Ideenreichtum, mit dem der Autor Winter handeln lässt. Auf Seite 275 zum Beispiel beginnt eine Szene, bei der ich schallend gelacht habe, so genial sind die Bilder, die man sich bei dem gekonnt geschilderten Ablauf sofort vorstellt.

Fazit:
Dieser spannende Thriller ist das erste von bisher drei Büchern über die internationale Welt der Hochfinanz und den smarten Sicherheitschef Tom Winter, doch die Reihenfolge spielt keine Rolle. Sicher ist jedoch, sobald man eines der Bücher gelesen hat, will man die anderen auch lesen. Dieser niveauvolle, auch sprachlich großartige Wirtschaftsthriller ist ein packender Pageturner, der überzeugt und Spaß macht. ( )
  Circlestonesbooks | Apr 13, 2019 |
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Received as part of the Early Reviewer program. Have to say I really struggled to get through this book, really slow moving for a thriller, lots of filler. It's main character Tom Winters was not a very likable. I am sure the book lost some in translation, but it seems it could have been 150 pages shorter. ( )
  joeinma | Mar 12, 2019 |
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Tom Winter is head of security for a small, elite Swiss bank for high-rolling clients, when one of those clients is killed, along with WInter's deputy, on some bank business. This is bad for business, so Winter sets out to find out who did it and why - leading him down some interesting trails amongst some of the world's richest people.

Damnation is a pretty interesting mystery/conspiracy/thriller, and I enjoyed the work of the author and translator. Nothing too strenuous here. Instead we get a good beach read, and since that's where I read it, that's ok with me! ( )
  drneutron | Jun 8, 2018 |
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I received a copy of this book from LibraryThing in exchange for a review.

A downed helicopter. A dead client. It is time for Tom Winter to investigate. Winter is the head of security for a highly respected private Swiss bank. And the client was a member of that bank. His pursuit takes him to Egypt where he teams up with Fatima Hakim, whose own boss is murdered shortly afterwards. Now they are in a race against time to discover just what is going on and stop the deadly outcome.

Action, espionage, a thrill a second. Beck packs a punch whit this first book of the ‘Tom Winter’ series. ( )
  RLJM | Jun 5, 2018 |
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A helicopter crashes killing an important client of a private Swiss bank. Tom Winter, the head of security for this bank investigates the crash. Also killed are the pilot and Tom’s colleague and lover, Anne. He doesn’t feel it is an accident and starts a race to find the killer and reason for the murders. Soon, he is being marked for death.

This is certainly a faced paced, action-packed, international thriller. I enjoyed the romp around the world and how the individuals interact with the various cultural differences. Tom Winter is almost like a super hero, chasing down the killer of his love and trying to save the world from financial ruin. All in all, a very entertaining story. My only gripe (and a minor one at that) is that it could have been trimmed somewhat. I felt that some sentences were more filler than advancing the story. ( )
  grumpydan | May 15, 2018 |
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Dead clients are bad for business, something that Tom Winter, head of security at a private Swiss bank, knows only too well. When a helicopter explosion kills a valuable client and a close colleague, Winter teams up with the mysterious Egyptian businesswoman Fatima Hakim to expose the truth behind their deaths. Together they follow the money trail around the world and back into the Swiss mountains, the NSA watching their every move. As they start closing in on the truth, Winter and Fatima turn from being the hunters to the hunted, finding themselves in a deadly, high-stakes race against the clock.

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