Swiss writer Martin Suter became a global literary star with the release of his brilliant debut novel Small World (1997). Now the recognized master of psychological writing has unexpectedly turned to plot, the tension and dynamism of which turn his new book into a real detective story. The hero of “The Ideal Friend” is a journalist who begins to investigate a major criminal scandal: deadly protein impurities that cause severe brain damage, like “mad cow disease,” were found in chocolate produced by a well-known company. Soon the reporter is attacked, receiving a brutal blow to the head - and as a result, the events of the last fifty days of his life are erased from his memory. Restoring them step by step, the journalist suddenly finds himself in the center of dramatic events with suicides and substitutions, inexorably leading the plot to a tragic ending.