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Foreign Rights Guide August 2012 – January 2013 Veit Etzold: FINAL CUT Thriller 448 pages 978-3-404-16687-9 Paperback 2012 A thriller with a highly topical subject: the dangers of social networks ● Top Thriller ● Rights already sold to: Italy, Spain, Russia, Turkey ● English summary available A killer who operates like a computer virus: ubiquitously, invisibly. Vladimir Schwarz, who calls himself The Nameless One, murdered his beloved sister out of envy when she had her first boyfriend at age fifteen. For years he has been driven by the idea of sacrificing 15 other women who resemble her closely as a way to atone for his deed. Schwarz is a computer whiz and has found a way to select and track down the right victims using online resources, particularly networking and dating websites. The nameless killer assumes the identity of men he meets at gay SM chat rooms, visits, and then murders. As a result, the homicide squad and chief detective Clara Vidalis are not even close to picking up the trail of the actual killer and constantly chasing perpetrators who are long dead. Just as the murderer is terrorizing the entire city of Berlin with his unseen, Web-supported killing spree, media mogul Albert Torino of Integrated Entertainment launches a new TV star-search format called She-Bay. Viewers can use an online auction platform to choose their favorite females who are then cast in the show. The person who chooses the right favorites gets to spend the night with the winner. While critics are still ranting about having the broadcast banned, Clara gets wind of the killer's horrible plan. The Nameless One has kidnapped Andira, the show's top model, and intends to stream the murder of his 15th victim live on the Internet. Rescuing Andira becomes a sacred mission for Clara. She herself lost her six-year-old sister to a child molester when she forgot to pick up the girl one evening after music school. She has been tortured by nightmares and guilt feelings ever since. Due to a shared history of which Clara suspects nothing, the killer has chosen the chief detective to witness his string of murders and in the end absolve him of his guilt. For Clara it's do or die. The invisible, ruthless slayer appears dangerous enough to threaten her life, but if she succeeds in tricking him and saving Andira, she could free herself of remorse forever. Veit Etzold was born in Bremen in 1973. He pursued studies in English language and literature, art history, media science, and general management in Oldenburg, London, and Barcelona, receiving his doctoral degree in 2005 with a thesis on the motion picture Matrix. During and after his education, he worked in banking, business consulting, management training, and the media industry. Veit Etzold lives in Berlin. Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG - Foreign Rights Department - Schanzenstraße 6-20 - 51063 Köln - Germany Tel: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 -27 04 or 27 00 - Fax: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 17 04 Christian Stüwe (christian.stuewe@luebbe.de) 9
Foreign Rights Guide August 2012 – January 2013 Karolina Halbach: THE CHRISTMAS HORSE Novel 176 pages 978-3-431-03858-3 Hardcover September 2012 An orphan girl. A mysterious horse. And the miracle of Christmas. The perfect gift book for Christmas: a heartwarming Christmas story à la Charles Dickens about a miraculous horse. 1850, not far from London. Heavy snowflakes are fluttering down from the night sky covering the frozen forest floor with a blanket of white glittering crystals. All is quiet but then - suddenly - hasty footsteps echo through the silence. The heavy breathing leaves no doubt: This is a matter of life and death. Twelve-year-old Agatha is on the run from her pursuers. She was sick and tired of the violence and the indignities that she had suffered in the orphanage. But her pursuers have almost caught up with her. The first one is already trying to grab her with his hands, when something truly unbelievable happens: Out of nowhere appears a white shimmering horse and carries the girl away. The mysterious horse takes her to a little farm. Exhausted and shivering from fear, the girl finds a place to sleep in the barn where she hides between bales of hay. Later, the farmer and his wife discover her there and from this moment on, they take care of her. After a few days, the farmer and his wife see the girl as a gift from God because they had always hoped to have children of their own but it was not meant to be. When she talks to the farmer and his wife, Agatha pretends not to remember who she is and from where she has come because she is terrified of being returned to the evil orphanage wardens. Yet, Agatha misses her brother who is still in the orphanage. She decides to save her brother and so it happens: On Christmas Eve, Agatha gets on the back of the horse and sets out for London to begin her rescue mission. Karolina Halbach, born in 1962, holds a PhD in Natural Sciences. She and her family live in the vicinity of Passau, and she loves nature, her family, their two dogs, and three ponies. 10 Bastei Lübbe GmbH & Co. KG - Foreign Rights Department - Schanzenstraße 6-20 - 51063 Köln - Germany Tel: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 -27 04 or 27 00 - Fax: +49 (0)2 21| 82 00 17 04 Christian Stüwe (christian.stuewe@luebbe.de)
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