Everything Has a Price - 20th Century Collection 161

Everything Has a Price is an unsparing portrait of the world we live in, a cruel world, a world of buying and selling, where money is king, because everything has a price. Set in the scorching environment of present-day Munich, this wonderful novel brings us into contact with the gilded society of millionaires, international playboys, high-class prostitutes - a gilded society whose ill-defined borders brush, more than one might think, against the underworld, against society's outcasts, against the world of crime. It is within these borders that Kirst sets the action of this novel, which engrosses the reader, drawing them, in a crescendo of interest, to the climax of the no-holds-barred struggle between two opposing worlds: the world of legality and the world of outlaws, in this case adorned with all the veneer of social success...