Kismet

I really enjoyed this! Kemal Kayankaya is a tough Turkish-German PI who accidentally ends up in the middle of a turf war as a Croatian organized crime group tries to take over territory of Albanian & German mobs in Frankfurt. The setting was great & I liked the international flavor of the various groups in the book. It was also darkly funny & nicely paced.

An enjoyable enough diversion, though it never rises above that. The ending feels simultaneously both a tad predictable, and extremely contrived. (Perhaps the linguistic misunderstanding final revelation feels less forced in the original German?)

I don't regret reading it, but I certainly can't see myself ever re-reading it.

I enjoyed this book and found many original elements in it. Good read!