Book Review: Rosso Come Il Mare di Wolfram Fleischhauer (Emons: Gialli Tedeschi) (Red as the See by Wolfram Fleischhauer)

Abstract

The latest Fleischhauer masterpiece: a moving thriller and a passionate call to protect the habitat from which we all come: the ocean. A young fisheries observer disappears from a Spanish trawler on the high seas. Her best friend and mastermind of group of radical environmental activists knows that she was probably killed. Despite the shock, the group remains determined to go on with their mission: to stop the destruction of the oceans by poisoning the sea-food-chain with an ingenious, untraceable and indestructible marine toxin that denatures fish for human consumption and triggers a life-long severe sea-food-incompatibility when ingested. The activist’s father, an influential fisheries lobbyist, will do anything to save this daughter from her insane actions. With the help of an interpreter whose feelings for his daughter he exploits in order to use him as a decoy, he sets out to find and save her before the merciless fisheries mafia will.  448 pages, Droemer Knaur, (March 2017)  German Official Bestseller List Rank 37 (Hardcover) one week after publication Dramatic and horrifyingly real: Wolfram Fleischhauer knows how to combine explosive topics with breath-taking suspense like no other writer. The Success Story of Wolfram Fleischhauer: To date, Wolfram Fleischhauer has published 9 novels, all of which have also been published internationally. Since his debut with the art-historical thriller The Purple Line (Die Purpurlinie) in 1996 (currently being developed into a TV series to be called The Poison Portrait), he has written historical novels as well as contemporary fiction. In 2003, Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (Die Frau mit den Regenhänden) was nominated for the prestigious Deutscher Krimipreis for crime literature and was named second runner-up. Wolfram Fleischhauer was born in 1961. He studied languages and literature in Germany, France, and Spain, and did his graduate work in literary theory at UC Irvine, where he also took several creative writing courses. After obtaining his M.A. with a thesis on Don DeLillo, he turned his back on academia in favor of writing novels. Fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish, he trained as a conference interpreter and has been working for the European Commission since 1992. The author lives in Berlin and in Brussels, is married, and has two children. Show more