political thriller
2016
496 pages, softcover,
13.5 × 21.5 cm
€16.99 (D) / €17.50 (A) including VAT.
ISBN 978-3-95890-045-5
The Secret of Dirty Money – a breathtaking political thriller of disturbing topicality!
»In Thore D. Hansen there is once again an author who proves that German crime productions can keep up with the international competition.« BuchMarkt, Jörn Meyer
The brutally mutilated body of a corrupt Chinese trade attaché is found in front of the US embassy in London. Scotland Yard investigator Rebecca Winter initially believes the crime to be a ritual murder: an act of revenge by the Chinese mafia. But she soon realises that the attaché played an explosive role in an escalating conflict between Washington and Beijing, which could soon develop into a veritable war.
From the first moment Rebecca Winter takes on her latest case, she feels immense pressure from the highest authorities to solve the murder as quickly as possible - it is putting too much strain on the fragile relations between the superpowers USA and China. When Rebecca expands her investigations to Beijing, she has no idea that the CIA has assigned one of its best agents to monitor her investigations - an agent who is by no means her partner in this dirty case. She suddenly finds herself caught in the crossfire of an international power struggle of unimaginable proportions, in which both sides have a lot, a lot of money at stake. And Rebecca soon discovers that there are forces at work here that are prepared to do anything to prevent the investigator from revealing a conspiracy for which the attaché had to give his life...
Quantum Dawn
2015
Paperback, 464 pages, format 13.5 x 21.5 cm
16.99 € (D) / 17.50 € (A) / 24.50 CHF incl. VAT.
ISBN 978-3-944305-79-0
A thriller that takes our breath away. Because it could be a reality tomorrow.
“Thore Hansen's business thriller is also so exciting because he bases the structure and plot of his story on reality - including a series of suicides among investment bankers that caused a stir at the beginning of 2014.” Image
“Hansen has written an exciting book with “Quantum Dawn”.” Handelsblatt
A murder in the financial world causes unrest in the secret circles of the monetary system. Scotland Yard policewoman Rebecca Winter discovers that a secret algorithm is the cause of an incipient series of murders: the stock markets, more vulnerable and manipulable than ever before due to their technical and global networking, are threatened by a gigantic crash. Winter discovers a plan that will strike at the very heart of civilization as we know it.
It is now clear to everyone that the big players such as Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs & Co. have long been unable to control the forces they have unleashed on the financial world. Thore D. Hansen's thriller creates a horror scenario that becomes more oppressive from page to page - because what he tells may have long since become reality. The unsolved death of an investment banker leads Scotland Yard policewoman Rebecca Winter to BND agent and cryptologist Erik Feg. He deciphers a code that could manipulate the automatic trading systems on stock exchanges around the world. Winter and Feg are caught in the middle of a battle between an unknown group of gentlemen who have set up shop in Brussels and at the nerve centers of European politics in order to implement a secret plan. What initially looks like the criminal machinations of a few unscrupulous bankers soon turns out to be the abyss of a global battle for the supremacy of money.
Whoever controls the Internet takes away our freedom and determines our lives
"Silent Control is proof that anyone who wanted to know what the NSA has been doing for years could have known. An excellently researched thriller that anticipated the Snowden affair."
Elmar Theveßen I Deputy Editor-in-Chief ZDF
The crisis of the global economic system is becoming unbearably serious. The world's powerful are worried about their privileges...
The head of the CIA has a brilliant idea: manipulating the World Wide Web on a scale never seen before. But the conspirators have much more in mind: high-tech is supposed to ensure mind control over the entire world population! A young Swedish hacker takes up the lonely fight with an overpowering, perfectly coordinated machine.
Will he be able to stop 'Silent Control'...?
The Swedish nerd Torben Arnström has pulled off a brilliant coup: the development of a computer virus that exposes all data espionage. The CIA's reaction is immediate: Arnström is kidnapped. Because his friends Nova and Kilian investigate his disappearance, they too find themselves in the firing line. But none of them initially realize the enormity of the plot. In the thicket of secret service intrigue, there are no clear fronts - any friend could be your sworn enemy... and some enemies could become your friend... When Torben discovers the secret plan for a mental attack on the upcoming summit of heads of state and government, the enemy finally seems to take shape: the CIA and its power-hungry boss. But is it really like that? Who is really behind the perfidious plan to develop a technology that makes people powerless - and that works as quietly as it does effectively? A technology that apparently cannot be countered...?
No crime can be hidden forever!
The American judge Ronald MacClary is on the trail of a terrible crime: he believes that the Catholic Church not only brutally exterminated the Celtic Druids almost 1700 years ago, but also stole their knowledge. Together with the healer Adam Shane, the linguist William Walker and the Druid Thomas Ryan, he begins to investigate. A spectacular trial ensues in which the Vatican and the Pope will reach their final limits. But the powerful in the Vatican are doing everything they can to prevent the trial.
Thore D. Hansen's thriller is full of tension and is hard to resist. The author sends his protagonists across Ireland, Austria, Italy and the USA to uncover one of the last taboos of our time - the crimes that the Vatican committed against the Celtic elite in order to secure its own power.
The biggest trial of all time is about to begin at the Supreme Court in Washington. In the dock: the Pope and the Vatican. The charges are theft of intellectual property from around 1700 years ago - knowledge that once enabled people to live in harmony with nature. What secrets are the Vatican trying to keep under wraps by all means?