Das Meer

The sea: origin of life. Man: origin of destruction. An eco-thriller about good and evil, life and death. Teresa disappears without a trace while on assignment on a modern fishing vessel on the high seas. Not only her lover and trainer John Render from the responsible EU authority in Brussels is horrified. Equally devastated are Ragna di Melo and her troupe of radical environmental activists who have developed a murderous method to end the ruthless exploitation of the seas. When Ragna's father, a flamboyant Swiss lobbyist, gets wind of his daughter's activities, which also touch on his own business interests, he must act. Even before the full extent of the threat becomes known, he travels to Southeast Asia, where Ragna is believed to be in hiding. He knows that his daughter will never speak to him. Therefore, he hires the young interpreter Adrian, who had a passionate affair with Ragna in his school days - but without letting him in on the real reasons ... Three men on a desperate search, two women in mortal danger - and between them the brutal apparatus of the global fishing mafia, an indifferent public and a politics incapable of action. Like no other, bestselling author Wolfram Fleischhauer knows how to combine explosive topics with breathless suspense. Dramatically and frighteningly realistic, he creates the catastrophe scenario of this eco-thriller and at the same time tells of the limits of love and our longing for a new way of dealing with nature. "'The Sea' is a blast." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.