Thilo Falk is the pseudonym of a German journalist and bestselling author. He lives with his family in a large city in northern Germany. The author has long been committed to environmental protection, has published extensively on this topic and demonstrably donates a fixed proportion of his income to environmental protection organizations.
I write climate fiction because humanity has no future without a healthy world.
The whole country is hit by extreme weather. Nobody suspects that this is just the beginning of a much bigger catastrophe …
Within a few weeks, extreme weather events occur throughout Europe – heavy rain, landslides and storm surges threaten the country. Water gushes out of drains, electricity pylons topple, coal-fired and nuclear power stations are flooded. The enormous masses of rain are killing more and more people and destroying the country’s infrastructure, while politicians stand idly by.
Cloud scientist Fjella Lange, IT specialist Arian Fischer and damage assessor Philipp Graf investigate the disastrous weather events and face a breathless race against time. They are the only ones who suspect that this is just the beginning of a much bigger catastrophe – driven by greed for money and power.
Frighteningly realistic: Thilo Falk succeeds in creating a climate thriller that brilliantly combines fact and fiction and makes it clear that extreme weather events are no longer a dystopia. Breathlessly thrilling: an outrageous discovery calls everything into question and a relentless race against time begins.
A coal deposit is to be mined in the Schwarzes Moor nature reserve. Environmental groups are vehemently opposed to this – above all Anouk Grunwaldt, the frontwoman of the climate protection movement.
Utz Mildenberger, Chairman of Germany’s largest electricity company, is pursuing completely different goals. In the midst of the protests about the imminent dismantling, a highly professional contract killer plans a gruesome assassination attempt on one of the main protagonists.
Investigator Karla Beneventi from the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt: Federal Criminal Police Office; the Central Office of the German Criminal Police is a higher federal authority of the Federal Republic of Germany subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs) must find out who is in the killer’s crosshairs: Is it the young climate activist or the successful energy manager? And above all: how can the assassination attempt still be thwarted? Because the moment of truth is nearly upon us.
Central Europe is being hit by a new ice age. The merciless cold threatens the lives of everyone – the supply of the population is no longer guaranteed due to a destroyed infrastructure, energy prices are unaffordable.
Research into the causes is in full swing. But then geophysicist Dr. Jana Hollmer, her partner Clemens Bach and shipping company boss Titus van Dijk make an incredible discovery …