Tibor Rode was born in Hamburg in 1974 and lives in Schleswig-Holstein. He studied law and worked first as a journalist and later as a legal advisor for a major daily newspaper. Today he still works as a lawyer and notary. Major social issues and scientific topics arouse his interest and inspire him to write stories that are as nerve-wracking as they are ingenious, which have been published in many different countries around the world.
His two most recent books were the Spiegel bestseller “The Forest” and the thriller “Lupus”, in which he explores the relationship between man and nature in a highly suspenseful way.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because books have always had the magic and power to transform their readers and therefore the world. If, as a writer, you can provide just a little food for thought with your stories alongside the exciting entertainment, that's worth a lot. In the end, many individual snowflakes trigger an avalanche.
Twelve children from twelve countries, participants in a climate camp in Australia, are kidnapped. The kidnappers’ threat: if the international community does not agree on drastic climate targets within a very short time, one child will die. In front of the camera. Then another one every week. The world holds its breath. Can what has failed in countless attempts before be achieved this way? Will governments give in when the lives of innocent children are at stake? It soon becomes clear that this race is about much more than the lives of individuals—and time is running out…
What if nature and technology joined forces against us?
Herds of antelopes in South Africa and bat colonies in the Swabian Alb: large animal populations around the world are dying out within a very short time, and entire species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. Experts are sounding the alarm, as the mysterious mass extinction seems to spare no species. Young pharmaceutical representative Fabian Nowack stumbles upon evidence that even the survival of humanity is under immediate threat. A race against time begins, at the end of which our Earth will never be the same again.
No wolf has ever attacked a human being in Germany. Until now?
Hunters disappear without a trace at night while stalking their prey—including the father of veterinarian Jenny Rausch. At the same time, attacks by wolves that seem to have gone wild are on the rise in German forests. Cameras on a specially installed AI-controlled protective fence record strange data, prompting prosecutor Frederik Bach to get involved. Have the missing hunters really fallen victim to wolves, or is this a case of murder?
Prosecutor Bach and Jenny are caught up in a whirlwind of events that link crimes committed during the Nazi era, one of the best-kept secrets of the GDR dictatorship, and a family drama. The two finally find answers in Jenny’s own past – and on the most dangerous island in the world.