Come Sweet Death

Komm, süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death) is a 1998 novel by Austrian author Wolf Haas. It is named after a musical piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was picturised in 2000 as Komm, süßer Tod (film). Disillusioned paramedic and ex-cop Simon Brenner finds himself trapped between the front lines of two competing Emergency Medical Services in Vienna's relentless summer heat. Things turn really hot when Brenner starts looking into the unusually high death rate of elderly patients. The story was made into a movie in 2000, with Wolfgang Murnberger directing and Josef Hader co-writing and starring. It is a thrilling and dark comedy that is also a satire on the EMS "scene", and has a hilarious car chase as its climax. It is considered by many to be...