Amok

This was supposed to be the last day of her life. 
Renowned criminal psychologist Ira Samin can no longer bear the feelings of guilt inspired by her eldest daughter's death and has decided to commit suicide. The preparations are all in place when Samin is summoned to a radio station where people have been taken hostage by a violent psychopath. A macabre game will decide the fate of the victims. From the studio, the hostage-taker dials numbers at random: if the phone is answered “correctly”, a hostage is
released; if not, the hostage will be shot. The man threatens to continue the game until his fiancée arrives at the studio, but there is one major problem: she has been dead for over half a year. Samin is assigned the seemingly hopeless task of negotiating with him, while their conversations are broadcast live on air...

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  • Publisher: Knaur TB
  • Release: 01.04.2007
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-63718-0
  • 448 Pages
  • Author: Sebastian Fitzek
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Sebastian Fitzek

Sebastian Fitzek has a background in radio. With a law degree, he got his PhD in copyright law. In 2006 he published his first psychological thriller Die Therapie, which, like his other books,
quickly became a bestseller. He has sold over 21 million copies in 36 languages. Fitzek has also been published in England and the United States. Der Seelenbrecher, Die Therapie and Passagier 23 have all been adapted to theater. Sebastian Fitzek has been nominated twice for the Glauser prize and has earned multiple Golden Lovelybooks reader prizes. He also received a Hörkules and was named winner for the European Prize for Crime Literature in 2016. He is also the ambassador for the German Children’s Fund and the patron for the association „Das frühgeborene Kind e. V“ (the Preemie Association). Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971.
He is married and has five children.