Difficile est saturam non scribere.
It is difficult not to write satire.
Juvenal. Saturae I, 30
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
Jessica Mitford.
Two German tourists die in traffic accidents in Egypt. Their bodies are used to transport a huge amount of dollar bills into Germany. Why are the responsible German authorities not interested in this case?
In the guise of a Canadian journalist Jack Boulder is sent to Egypt by a minor German secret service to inquire about the background, traveling with a German government minister's delegation. Unintentionally, an airline physician gives Boulder a lead that finally takes him to Spain.
Apparently, money trafficking is but a sideline in the context of events. They have their root in recent German history, former East-West business relations kept alive, and are far more complicated and convoluted than everybody thought — and they happen on the level of the new fast and loose German elite.
The novel is set in 2004 in Berlin, Cairo, the Libyan desert — Basel, Potsdam — reminiscences of Budapest in the 1950s and East Berlin in the 1970s — Madrid, Andalusia, and Tuscany … as the world turns.
Another book featuring Jack Boulder, his friend Laszlo Nagy, Dr. Schall — and Jack Boulder's friend Annabel Conti, who still works for a Swiss bank.
This book is part of a cycle of books. The first installment, Unnamed Forces, plays in 2002, the second one, Berlin Export, in 2004, and the third one, Occident Express, in 2006. The story of The Stamp Collector takes place in 2010 (to be published in spring 2025).
Although each work within the cycle presents an independent, self-contained tale, they are all connected by the characters of the protagonist, his friends and some other persons, and the outcome of the events of earlier plots. Still, each individual installment of the cycle can be read on its own.
Berlin Export.
Illustrated paperback. 280 pages, 25 color illustrations.
New Edition 2024 | Publishing date: 6 March 2024.
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ISBN (Europe): 978-3-7583 1414-8 | ISBN (outside Europe): 978-628-01-2720-0
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Reader's Opinion
"The story is taut and the prose polished, sometimes biting and sarcastic, partly laconic, partly descriptive story-telling. The literary style is adjusted to the easy-reading form of the political thriller. The main theme is: Whom can you trust?"
R.P., Berlin.
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