IT'S possible that Christian Jungersen's second novel, a bestseller across Europe and a prizewinner in the author's native Denmark, is a heck of a thriller in its original language. American readers who don't speak Danish will never know, dependent as we are on an English-language version so stolidly unsuspenseful that it's hard to believe the edition's flaws are the fault of the translator.
Withering book review
Here's the start of Donna Rifkind's review of The Exception by Christian Jungersen:
