The Pledge

The Pledge

<div>Set in a small town in Switzerland, <I>The Pledge </I>centers around the murder of a young girl and the detective who promises the victim’s mother he will find the perpetrator. After deciding the wrong man has been arrested for the crime, the detective lays a trap for the real killer—with all the patience of a master fisherman. But cruel turns of plot conspire to make him pay dearly for his pledge. Here Friedrich Dürrenmatt conveys his brilliant ear for dialogue and a devastating sense of timing and suspense. Joel Agee’s skilled translation effectively captures the various voices in the original, as well as its chilling conclusion.<br><BR>One of Dürrenmatt’s most diabolically imagined and constructed novels, <I>The Pledge</I> was adapted for the screen in 2000 in a film directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.<br><BR></div>