The Swallow's Cry

Familiar to readers from the book "Istanbul Riddle", Commissioner Nevzat Akman is back in action, and this time his team is on the hunt for a serial killer who has taken up arms after several years of oblivion.
But "The Swallow's Cry" is not only and not so much a crime fiction unfolding around the resolution of mysterious murders. It is also a work touching on the pressing problem of modern civilization, and a text about revenge, showing the dark sides of the human soul. The novel is based on the ongoing Syrian tragedy, and here Ahmet Umit compares the actions of the serial killer with the deeds and actions of those who consider themselves normal. The writer poses the question: who is more terrible, who is more savage - the brutal serial killer who only takes the lives of child abusers, or the people who do nothing, watching the great tragedy unfold right before their eyes?..