Don’t dream your life, live your dream!
With this in mind, Ute (U.T.) Bareiss set off to sail around the world at the beginning of the millennium and moved her writing and translation office from Stuttgart on board her sailing catamaran “Taimada”. Together with her husband, she explores the world above and below the water. From the Mediterranean via Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, the South Seas, Oceania, Australia, Indonesia to the Far East, the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea – they have already circumnavigated the world once, but the journey continues, there is still so much to discover.
What better way to inspire them to dive into other worlds and present important topics packed into captivating stories than exotic places and foreign cultures? Not only in her travel reports for various magazines, but also in suspenseful thrillers, exciting situations from her everyday life are reflected in many facets.
The thriller series about marine biologist Alex Martin is set in various locations around the globe, which she has explored as part of her circumnavigation of the globe, while the (environmental) crimes on Borneo are fought by lawyer David Kepler and biologist Floriana Anders.
Under the pseudonym of Helen Paris, the author brings out her romantic side in feel-good novels. Nature and the environment are always unobtrusively featured on the pages of her books.
She also works as a freelance editor and translator and is very actively involved in voluntary work for authors’ and environmental associations.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because literature offers a great opportunity to bring nature and environmental issues to a wide audience in an exciting and unobtrusive way. Together we can achieve a lot.
A fanatical sect, dolphins used as weapons and an authority with dark secrets …
Following an epidemic, entire villages in Kenya are burned to the ground. Over the Sudanese desert, an airplane with a deadly cargo disappears from radar – mysterious events are piling up around the world.
When mutilated dolphins turn up in the Red Sea following a terrorist threat, marine biologist Alex Martin is called in to join a special undercover unit. He discovers a conspiracy of global proportions – and has to risk his own life to save countless others.
“Very lively and full of suspense.”
– Cannstatter Zeitung
“The radio crackled at that moment.
Suddenly everything happened very quickly.
The mercenaries stormed towards their hiding place.
David stood up and faced five Uzis pointing at him.”
Lawyer David Kepler can hardly believe his quick success. After just a short time at Global Green Palm Oil, he is given a top position. The company proudly bears the green label for sustainability and is extremely generous to its employees. Once he arrives in Borneo, however, there are growing doubts about the seriousness of the multi-billion dollar company. Why would anyone be interested in monitoring it? Was the death of his predecessor really an accident?
David finds support from biologist Floriana Anders, who is passionately committed to protecting the endangered orangutans and the last lowland rainforests of Borneo. Together they try to uncover the dark machinations of his company. In the process, they find themselves in mortal danger …
A gripping adventure full of intrigue, betrayal, a secret love and the ruthless destruction of nature
With an afterword by Daniel Mendes, Borneo Orangutan Survival Germany.
A fireball lights up the Tyrrhenian Sea. Marine biologist Alex rescues an injured man from the wreckage of the exploded motor yacht. This marks the beginning of a fight for survival. The rescued man is a journalist and has explosive research material on a murder in Italy’s highest political circles. Alex gets caught up in a maelstrom of power and intrigue – until he himself is pursued by the police and unscrupulous criminals. There is only one way out: the hunted must become the hunter himself.
“An extremely exciting race for life and death.”
– Kölner Rundschau
When marine biologist Alex Martin hears about imminent oil drilling off the coast of the Bahamas, he is alarmed. Because the area is close to a highly sensitive ecosystem that is under conservation protection! Has there been fraud in the licensing process?
Together with two colleagues from Operation STARFISH – which specializes in maritime environmental crimes – he infiltrates the oil platform as a worker. The investigators come across a secret organization that wants to take control of global oil production and will stop at nothing to achieve this plan. To stop them, Alex and his colleagues put their lives in danger …
The black market for ivory is booming! Marine biologist Alex Martin accidentally comes across smugglers while working for the nature conservation authority in Thailand. This lands him in the crosshairs of a powerful organization. Together with his friend, Thai investigator Jaidee, Alex sets off on the trail of white gold. It leads from the African savannahs through the red light milieu of Phuket to the highest Chinese business floors.
Alex and Jaidee penetrate deeper and deeper into the swamp of organized crime. In the process, they make a gruesome discovery …
“Captivating and thrilling to the end.”
– Divemaster Magazine