Späte
Seilschaften
Old Boys Network
Murder – almost incidentally
What do a professor from Oxford and a former
agent for the “Stasi” (East
German Secret Police) have to do with each other? They’re
both under suspicion for murder. And they have a common past. It’s
an exciting construct for a crime story set at the end of the Cold
War.
Oxford archeology professor Anthony Gardener,
a former agent for the British Secret Service (MI6), is afraid
he’ll be falsely
accused of murdering a young colleague. And former Stasi police
captain Roepke is forced to disappear from Berlin when he discovers
he is suspected of complicity in the robbery of an armored vehicle.
With the end of the conflict between east
and west, these two protagonists encounter each other again. However,
their stage is no longer the Gordian knots of their respective
political systems. Instead, they’re
caught between the wheels of powerful economic interests that threaten
to tear them to pieces. The balance of power has shifted; the threat
scenarios have taken on individual dimensions. Gardener and Roepke
must work together to clear their names. A plot with depth against
the backdrop of daily potential for danger.
* translation: Mary Tannert
Publication:
September 2008,
Pendragon Publisher in German
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