The German Task

About the Book

We write 1977. The cold war is raging, but master instructor Lars Steensen has enough to do with his own war. A war against creditors. After a serius riding accident it seems he has lost the battle, but in the hospital he receives an unexspected visit. Two officers from NATO intelligence ask him do do a job for them. A rather simple task. So it seems, and he is not in a situation, that invite to refuse. The assignment brings him around on the north German competitions camps, but the simple task turns out to be a lot more complicated than assumed. And a lot more dangerous. The crime-circle wrote: A new Dick Francis whith the same ability to write. Not about the racing world this time, but about the show jumping world. An exellent thriller. Horse&Rider wrote: A book that can be equated with the the greatest novel writer successes in the Danish bookmarket. The libraries reviuw wrote: A really good, old-fashioned thriller from the good, old, cold war.

About the Author

Thorvald Lygum was born in Skads (Denmark) in 1944. He began working at the age of fourteen, and was in the army in the age of seventeen. Out of the army in 1967 he started the master instructor training (six years). In 1981 he went to Italy, where he, besides his work as riding instructor, began to write fiction. The Hans Jürgen Fritz affair is his debut novel.