Frank Schätzing

In the year 1260, under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom is rising above the merchant city of Cologne: the great cathedral. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter struggle is underway between the archbishop of Cologne and the ruling merchant families to control the enormous wealth of this prosperous commercial center—a struggle that quickly becomes deadly.Morart is the first of many victims, pushed to his death from the cathedral's scaffolding by a huge man with long hair, clad all in black. But hiding in the branches of the archbishop's apple orchard is a witness: a red-haired petty thief called Jacob the Fox, street-smart, cunning, and yet naive in the ways of the political world. Out of his depth and running for his life, he soon finds himself engaged in a desperate battle with some very powerful forces.Most dangerous of all is the killer himself—a mysterious man with remarkable speed, strength, and intelligence, hiding dark secrets that have stripped away his humanity and turned him into a cruel, efficient hired assassin who favors a miniature crossbow as his weapon of choice. But who is he killing for?Jacob the Fox—uneducated and superstitious—fears the killer is the Angel of Death himself. But the wily Fox makes an alliance with some of the strangest of bedfellows: a beautiful clothes dyer, her drunken rascal of a father, and her learned uncle, who loves a good debate almost as much as he loves a bottle of wine.Can this unlikely foursome triumph against the odds and learn the truth of the evil conspiracy before their quest leads to their death at the end of a crossbow arrow?Readers who loved the richly textured setting and historical accuracy of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose will thrill to discover a new novel through which they can vicariously enter the medieval world. With its vivid evocation of both the rich and powerful and those struggling to survive another day at the bottom of society's rungs in the Cologne of 1260, Death and the Devil, the first novel by Frank Schatzing, sends a clear announcement to the literary world that an important new voice in fiction is here.

Tom Hagen, gefeierter Star unter den Krisenberichterstattern, ist nicht zimperlich, wenn es um eine gute Story geht. Die Länder des Nahen Ostens sind sein Spezialgebiet, seine Reportagen Berichte aus der Hölle. Doch in Afghanistan verlässt ihn sein Glück. Hagens Ruf ist ruiniert, verzweifelt kämpft er um sein Comeback. Drei Jahre später bietet sich die Gelegenheit in Tel Aviv, als ihm Daten des israelischen Inlandsgeheimdienstes zugespielt werden. Hagen ergreift die Chance - und setzt ungewollt eine tödliche Kettenreaktion in Gang ... Breaking News ist ein mitreißender Thriller vor dem Hintergrund einer epischen Saga. Zwei Familien wandern Ende der Zwanzigerjahre nach Palästina ein - in eine von Legenden, Kämpfen und Hoffnungen beherrschte neue Welt, wo Juden, Araber und britische Kolonialherren erbittert um die Vorherrschaft ringen. Bis in die Gegenwart, über Generationen hinweg, spiegeln und prägen beide Familien Israels atemlose Entwicklung. Als Hagen in der jungen Ärztin Yael Kahn eine unerwartete Verbündete findet, erkennt er, dass auch sein Schicksal eng mit der Geschichte des Landes verbunden ist. Doch mit Yael an seiner Seite gehen die Probleme erst richtig los.

2025 - Helium-3 is a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems - and it's been discovered on the Moon, prompting a breathless race between the Americans and Chinese. In Shanghai, cyber-detective Owen Jericho has been hired to find a missing girl, but what started as a routine investigation soon develops into a nightmarish hunt, where he's the quarry: there's a crazed assassin hot on his heels, all because Yoyo accidentally stumbled onto a secret society called Hydra. Now their lives are at risk. Following the Hydra trail takes Jericho and Yoko round the world and finally to the Gaia, the Moon's very first hotel, where a billionaire entrepreneur is entertaining some of the world's richest and most influential men and women. But Hydra has its own plans for the Earth - and the Moon. And nothing and no one will be allowed to stand in its way. - Publishers description.

Die Pandemie-Zwangspause nutzen und gemeinsam ein Buch schreiben! Sebastian Fitzek, Tausende Thriller-Fans und namhafte deutschsprachige Bestseller-AutorInnen unterstützen mit spannenden Kurzgeschichten den Buchhandel in Zeiten der Corona-Krise Unter dem Motto #wirschreibenzuhause hat Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek Ende März 2020 seine Instagram-Follower zu einem interaktiven Schreibwettbewerb aufgerufen. 1142 begeisterte Fans machten sich an die Arbeit und sandten ihre Thriller-Storys ein, die sich um das Thema “Identität” drehen, um das Motiv “Rache” und um den Fund eines Handys mit bedrohlichen Bildern darauf - Nervenkitzel pur! Eine Jury aus AutorInnen, Agenten und VerlagsmitarbeiterInnen wählte die dreizehn packendsten Geschichten aus, die nun in der Thriller-Anthologie "Identität 1142" erscheinen. Zusätzlich steuerten zehn der erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen BestsellerautorInnen eigene spannende Kurzgeschichten bei: Wulf Dorn, Andreas Gruber, Romy Hausmann, Daniel Holbe, Vincent Kliesch, Charlotte Link, Ursula Poznanski, Frank Schätzing und Michael Tsokos - sowie natürlich Sebastian Fitzek selbst. Entstanden ist ein Charity-Projekt der ganz besonderen Art: Sämtliche Gewinne aus dem Verkauf der Kurzgeschichten-Anthologie kommen über das Sozialwerk des Deutschen Buchhandels e.V. dem Buchhandel zugute!

All'aeroporto di Colonia è tutto pronto. Sta per arrivare il presidente degli Stati Uniti perché la città tedesca è stata scelta come sede per il G8. Le misure di sicurezza sono imponenti, apparentemente inattaccabili. Ma non per un'organizzazione chiamata il Cavallo di Troia, che ha come unico scopo quello di uccidere l'uomo più potente del mondo proprio mentre scende dall'Air Force One. E che ha messo a punto una trappola impossibile da individuare, grazie a una tecnologia avveniristica e a due soli killer, i più spietati e abili in circolazione. Ma qualcun altro è atteso a Colonia. Liam O'Connor, autore di bestseller scientifici, in lizza per il premio Nobel per la fisica, è infatti appena giunto in Germania per un tour promozionale. Ed è proprio Liam che individua tra la folla un personaggio inquietante: Paddy, un ex membro dell'IRA, da tempo sparito dalla circolazione e adesso sorprendentemente impiegato come tecnico all'aeroporto. Qualcosa non torna: cosa ci fa un ex terrorista in un luogo così "caldo"? E perché si aggira intorno a un traliccio poco distante dalle piste di atterraggio? Impiccione per natura, Liam comincia a indagare, ma quello che scopre è troppo incredibile per essere vero... L'ora sta per scoccare. L'aereo del presidente americano si avvicina sempre di più a Colonia. Ma come si può convincere gli addetti alla sicurezza del pericolo se l'unica prova disponibile è una teoria scientifica tanto folle quanto geniale?