Unter der Erde

What secrets does an entire village hide? The new thriller by Stephan Ludwig, the author of the cult bestseller series "Zorn," now in paperback. Volkow, a village on the edge of a massive open-pit mining area. Each day, the excavators draw closer, and in a few months, the village will be gone. Yet the residents remain, "they take care of each other." Elias Haack experiences this firsthand when he arrives in Volkow on a hot summer day. His curiosity about his grandfather Wilhelm has brought him to this picturesque yet remote village. Elias hasn't seen Wilhelm in over thirty years, but their reunion is short-lived. Wilhelm dies, leaving Elias stranded in his search for his origins, which reach far into the past, in Volkow. There is a road leading into the village, but it seems there is none leading out. The longer he stays in his grandfather's house, the stranger the villagers appear to him. Why do they endure, even as the excavators draw nearer day by day? What are they hiding? And what does it all have to do with Elias?.