Der Schwarm

Limited special edition featuring a bonus chapter and a current essay by Frank Schätzing. Presented in a new, high-quality format with five removable illustrations (each 11 x 19 cm) by the artist Isabel Seliger.

Almost 20 years ago, Frank Schätzing's thriller "The Swarm" was first introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair - the beginning of a unique success story and the reason for this anniversary edition.

A fisherman disappears without a trace off the coast of Peru. Oil drilling experts discover strange organisms in the Norwegian Sea that have taken over large parts of the seabed. Meanwhile, an eerie change is occurring with the whales along the coast of British Columbia. With unsettling logic, Frank Schätzing unfolds a global catastrophe scenario of alarming plausibility, based on systematic scientific research. Adventure novel, political thriller, psychodrama, science fiction, an early parable on climate change - "The Swarm" is all of this, culminating in a breathtaking finale. A masterpiece of suspense literature, a classic of ecological fiction with an almost uncanny prophetic power, raising the most important question of all: How do we want to live on this planet without destroying it and ourselves?.