Andreas Pflüger is a guarantee for first-class crime novels. His cases are always commentaries on the political and social situation. Excellently researched, masterfully written. His latest thriller Wie sterben geht (How to Die ) immediately landed at number one on the "ZEIT" best crime novel list and takes us into the world of espionage and counter-espionage at the height of the Cold War: winter 1983 - a spectacular exchange of agents is about to take place. Unexpectedly, the fate of analyst Nina Winter now also hinges on the question of war and peace between the superpowers. "Hardly any other author knows the laws and internal structures of the international secret services as well as Andreas Pflüger - and can write about them so brilliantly" (Hans-Ludwig Zachert, former head of counterintelligence at the BKA). "Powerful language, action that makes you tremble, loyalty in betrayal. A masterpiece by the German John le Carré" (Deutschlandfunk). Mod.: Thomas Laue