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"A hunt for drug gang diamonds is keeping Basel Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. Basel, nestled at the border of Switzerland with Germany and France, has been hammered by a huge snowstorm, cars and trams can barely move, trees are groaning under the weight of the recent snowfall, the cathedral and city roofs are smothered. An elegant young Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, show more Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to get to the station toilet and flushes the stones away. Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage maintenance worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his family village. To his older Swiss girl-friend Erika, employed at a supermarket checkout counter, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to "tidy things up". For Hunkeler the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom-feeding drug gangs but bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain."--Amazon.com. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Silver Pebbles
- Original title
- Silberkiesel
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters*
- Peter Hunkeler
- Important places*
- Basel, Basel-Stadt, Schweiz
- Epigraph*
- Sehen Sie, erzählen, einfach erzählen, ein Bilderbuch schreiben, in dem der Zug, das Haus, die Strasse vorkommen, die Dinge, die der Mann jeden Tag sieht und die er gar nicht mehr sieht, weil sie ihm zu geläufig sind.
<... (show all)br>Friedrich Glauser - First words*
- Der Intercity Frankfurt - Basel rollte durch die oberrheinische Tiefebene, ein schöner, schlanker Zug.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Sind sie nicht schön? Der ist für dich, und der ist für mich."
- Original language*
- Deutsch
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