Die Jagd

I really enjoyed Filipenko's [b:Der ehemalige Sohn 56935879 Der ehemalige Sohn Sasha Filipenko https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1612353756l/56935879.SY75.jpg 41321441], so i was going into this with maybe too high expecations. This is the story of a Russian football player, his corrupt oligarch father, the journalist who investigates the father, the criminal who bullies the journalist and the criminal's pianist brother. So, potentially an interesting setup, yet the parts are all very segmented and uneven, and even though it all ties together in the end, it really left me frustrated. As the whole subject matter is really dark, I either could have used a more central sympathetic character to connect to, or the whole thing should have gone even more dark satire. Or maybe I've just had too much Russian fiction and reality for a now.