“The Hunt”, by Steffen Jacobsen, the first part of the Michael Sander series, finally in Spanish

Michael Sander is a security consultant and private detective assigned to investigate a video showing a couple hunted, apparently, to death. Sander must find out who they are and why they wanted to kill them, but what appears to be another case, actually goes beyond what he imagined, it’s the entrance to the darker side of the condition. human.

Ingrid and Kasper Hansen had never imagined that at the end of their days they would have to run for their lives, be the protagonists of a harrowing hunt that would take them away from their children forever. All they could think of was exactly that, if she could survive the next 24 hours to see her children again.

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“The hunt” is an electrifying story of personal morality, like a review of The weekly publishers, in the face of ruthless inhumanity. In it, the writer Steffen Jacobsen exploring the limits of greed and power.

It all starts when Elisabeth Caspersen finds a DVD in her late father’s safe. In the recording, we can see a kind of manhunt and the one who chases has a huge resemblance to his father.

Caspersen, who is the heir to a huge family fortune, decides to contact Sander to help her decipher what is hidden behind this mysterious video. What the investigator does not expect is that this world of brutal violence will end up persecuting him too.

This is the first part of the series written by the Danish author in which Michael Sander is the main character. Its original publication dates back to 2013, but only now, ten years later, readers can enjoy it in Spanish.

“The hunt”title edited and published in Spanish by the label Editorial Rockis a work that delves into the darkest recesses of the human mind and reflects on concepts such as duty, responsibility and guilt.

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Within the pages of this novel, readers will find a nimble, fast-paced, fast-paced story that expands as the reading progresses. The tension is not long in coming, the turns and the characters have the ability to enter fully into the reader’s head.

The sets, environments and use of language make this book an excellent entry point into the series by Dane Jacobsen, who is already preparing the seventh installment. Over the years, various conflicts have arisen which reflect today’s reality: attacks by Islam, clashes over oil or gas, wars between nations.

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Jacobsen has commented in some interviews that what he was most interested in dealing with in “The hunt” It is the greed that comes from the billionaires, those people who, because of their social or economic situation, believe that they can literally do whatever they want, like write their own moral code, for example, and not follow only their own rules. . It is precisely the characteristic that gives these terrible characters. “When you’ve hunted all the animals, you think the next and only thing to do is to hunt humans.”

“I knew the hunters had been pushing him towards this point on the edge of nowhere all day. Stumbling over the granite gravel, he threw down his unloaded shotgun and crouched under a rock where the wind had carved a comfortable curve into which to fit his back. A few meters away, a stream of glacial meltwater rushed foamy water into the void which landed on the edge of the fjord with an audible splash.

“He could see the headlights of a few cars across the fjord, and even though they were only ten miles away, it seemed like another world to him. She hid her hands under her armpits and put her chin on her knees as she contemplated the damage the client’s bullet had done to one of her hiking boots hours earlier during her desperate escape.Her foot was still bleeding, red fluid leaking out out of the hole, but it didn’t hurt much anymore. She pulled her boot off and gritted her teeth, taking the sock with her, stiff with dried blood. Then he wedged the boot under a rock and covered it with dirt and gravel. to be that someone will find it one day” – (Fragment).

With high tension and a wonderful cinematic narrative, “The hunt” It’s the kind of thriller that won’t waste a minute on any reader. From now on, while waiting for the translation of the other six, which have sold more than 500,000 copies in Scandinavia, there will be no other choice but to take refuge there fully.

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