Sprengkraft - Explosive Force

Grafit, toptitle, approx. 416 pages. Original Edition. Hardcover
Date of publication: May 2009

A bomb explodes …

It all starts with an old case: Martin Zander and Anna Winkler are asked to tackle the Salim Diouris file again. The Moroccan-born dealer was shot on the street a good year and a half ago, and the killer was never caught – presumably because a mole sabotaged the investigation.

No one knows that Salim’s younger brother Rafi has joined a group of religious fanatics: the boy is a ticking time bomb.

When the bomb does explode, it is the political party Die Freiheitlichen that stands to benefit. PR expert Moritz Lemke and the recently-elected chairwoman Carola Ott-Petersen had had trouble making people forget the party’s radical right-wing past. Now they have solid arguments for condemning excessive tolerance against Muslims: passages in the Koran are used to justify crimes
against the western world. The threat is real – even in Germany.

… and a PR-adviser boosts his career

While Moritz increasingly comes to believe his own claims, Carola begins to have her doubts: who is actually controlling the party?  
 

 

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which is produced by our globalised society, as precisely as Horst Eckert.«

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