Angelika Schöllkopf suddenly collapses at the rostrum in the German Bundestag. The cameras are rolling as she dies, just before she starts her speech. ’
Pictures of her death dominate the media for two whole days, then the public forgets the incident. Only members of her family refuse to believe Angelika died of sudden heart failure.
They commission private detective Georg Dengler to carry out further investigations. Dengler wants to know why the scripts of the planned speech have disappeared. Suddenly, he finds himself in the middle of a global power struggle between major energy companies.
Fremde Wasser is the third book in the successful Dengler series. Once again, we meet the detective Georg Dengler, his attractive neighbour, the thief Olga, his friend and writer of horoscopes, Martin Klein, and the artist Mario, who starts a dangerous new job. »In this detective novel, very little is made up,« says Wolfgang Schorlau, who researched extensively into the methods used by German and international enterprises all over the world to secure access to water rights.
