Bøger af Frank Schatzing

Global økothrillerbestseller udkommer på danskEn fisker forsvinder sporløst ud for Perus kyst efter mødet med en stor stime fisk. Et tankskib i Stillehavet mister navigationsevnen, da små muslinger blokerer roret. Ud for Canadas vestkyst går en flok hvaler amok og begynder at angribe skibe. I Australien blokerer millioner af giftige gopler strandene. Og ud for Norges kyst opdager ingeniører en hidtil ukendt ormeart, der æder sig ned i kontinentalsoklen og frigør metangas.Den norske marinbiolog Sigurd Johanson begynder at analysere de mystiske orme, som dukker op i millionvis, ligesom andre som ham kloden over langsomt indser, at noget er grueligt galt.En økologisk katastrofe uden sidestykke truer menneskeheden. Og nogen er fast besluttet på at udnytte katastrofen i en kynisk stræben efter magt. Sværmener en storstilet økothriller til tiden, der kombinerer videnskabens indblik i Jordens skrøbelige økologi med den politiske spændingsroman.”En fængslende thriller med den utæmmede natur i hovedrollen. Et kæmpe science fictionværk fyldt med fakta.” Stern”Efter disse 1.000 åndeløse sider ser du havet med andre øjne.” Focus”… den ultimative sommerlæsning … får mig til at tænke på det bedste af Michael Crichton og Stephen King.” Contra Costa Times”Verden kunne gå under, mens du læste Sværmen , og du ville ikke bemærke det.” Die Welt

More gripping than Crichton, classier than Cussler, Frank Schatzing's record-breaking ecological thriller is now in paperback.

In the year 1260, a great cathedral, the most ambitious ecclesiastical building in all of Christendom, is rising high above the bustling city of Cologne under the supervision of the architect Gerhard Morart. Far below the soaring spires and flying buttresses, a bitter war rages between the archbishop and the city's ruling merchant familiesa deadly conflict that claims Morart as the first of its many victims. But there is a witness to the murder of the unfortunate architect, pushed to his death from the cathedral's scaffolding. A cunning, street-smart, politically naive petty thief called "e;Jacob the Fox"e; has seen it alland seeing has made him the target of a relentless and ruthlessly efficient assassin who's been stripped of his humanity by dark, hidden secrets. Ensnared in the strangling vines of a terrifying conspiracy, the Fox must now run for his life. But whoand whatis he running from?

Arthur C. Clarke meets Michael Crichton: an elevator to the Moon and a rare energy source - and a secret society, Hydra, that has plans for both.

An elevator that links the Earth to the Moon; a rare element that promises to solve all the world's energy problems; a secret society that has its own plans for both. This is the limit - how far would you go?

It's the year 1260 and the great cathedral - the most ambitious building in all of Christendom - is rising above the streets of Cologne. Far below its soaring spires and flying buttresses, an assassin of unnatural talent surveys his new hunting ground.