Is truth itself under threat? A highly topical and exciting political thriller about the dangers of disinformation, the limits of journalism, and Berlin as the eternal capital of spies.
Merle Schwalb is an investigative journalist, responsible for covering extremists of all kinds. Yet everything about her new area of research is different right from the start. A man without a name falls from a balcony in Berlin. Who is this mysterious deceased man?
The clues lead her into the world of Berlin’s criminal clans, to the police, and to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. But, after a fateful encounter, it becomes clear to Merle Schwalb that the dead man was a Russian agent with explosive information and a dangerous mission. And that this assignment is just a bit too big for her to handle alone.
So she teams up with her colleagues from Globus and they make a pact with their competitors from the Norddeutsche Zeitung. The journalists set up a secret headquarters in provincial Brandenburg and carry out research in Riga, Kaliningrad, and Prague. But their investigation doesn’t go unnoticed. And suddenly everything is at stake: trust and betrayal, spies and fake news, life and death. And they themselves. Because who says the truth is more powerful than lies?
