Bernhard Schlink

O Leitor é um romance escrito por Bernhard Schlink, publicado pela primeira vez, na versão original, em 1995. Em 2008 foi feito uma adaptação cinematográfica homónima do realizador Stephen Daldry.

The seventy-something private investigator Gerhard Self is hired to track down a mysterious silent bank partner, a case which eventually leads him to eastern Germany and some of the most dangerous villians he has ever met.

Gerhard Self, the dour private detective, returns in this riveting crime novel about terrorism, governmental cover-up, and the treacherous waters where they mix.Leo Salger, the daughter of a powerful Bonn bureaucrat, is missing, and Self has been hired to find her. His investigation initially leads him to a psych ward …