"42 degrees" and not a drop of water on the horizon

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by Wolf Harlander, published on May 5, 2022 by Éditions Hervé Chopin.

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Why this book?

• Because above all, don't be fooled by the title

  because this climatic thriller is chilling in its content!

  While the sunny days are here and we only think about cooling off, if you immerse yourself in this thriller, you will only be warmer.

• Because this book is captivating and hyperinteresting

  because of its realism and the degree (oh, the nice pun not done on purpose) of details.

• Because it is certain that the author, Wolf Harlander,

  has done an enormous amount of investigative work to immerse his readers in such detail in the world of European hydrology.

  A journalist by trade, he began his career as a writer on a whirlwind.

• Because even if, in the story, the whole European continent

  is affected by a huge heat wave and an unprecedented drought, the focus is on Germany.

  Despite this, the reader can only experience with dread what unfolds over the pages.

• Because it is often the United States that is highlighted

  during a fictional disaster, the originality is to find ourselves this time much closer to home.

• Because for a disaster thriller, it's much denser

  and richer than what you're used to finding in this kind of book.

  It is on the front of several climatic dangers that the characters evolve: the shortage of water, an extraordinary drought, whistleblowers not listened to, growing eco-terrorism, an international policy that finds itself jostled...

• Because despite nearly 550 pages, the reader is not bored.

  In the form of a story told by several voices, the shelled clues finally intertwine in an investigation worthy of very good thrillers.

  Embellished with "official" texts such as could be provided in reality, with press articles, these style changes bring a certain added value to the book.

  
  

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

As summer arrives in Germany, an intense sun floods the cities and an unprecedented drought sets in.

While water distribution networks are targeted by eco-terrorists, whistleblowers try to alert public authorities but are not taken seriously.

Characters.

Notably hydrologist Julius Denner and computer scientist Elsa Forsberg.

Places.

Europe and in particular, in Germany.

The time.

Contemporary.

The author.

Wolf Harlander, born in Nuremberg in 1958, studied journalism, politics and economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

For his debut thriller

, Harlander was awarded the Stuttgart Crime Prize and the MIMI 2021, German Bookseller's Audience Award.

This book was read with

horror.

Once the last page is turned, you can only turn to your tap and offer yourself a good glass of water.

Such a simple gesture, which seems so acquired to us and which, however, may one day no longer be so easy...

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