1263: Jacop the Fox is in trouble. Just like three years ago, when he got caught up in an intrigue involving Cologne's patricians and only narrowly escaped death. After that, his fate took a promising turn. He became respectable, from thief to merchant's apprentice. But once again he has to run, fight and swim for his life - chased by ghosts of the past, Scottish mercenaries and the terrifying Blonde Witch. Thrown into a storm that engulfs the whole of Europe. If only Jacop had stayed in Cologne with his friends. But there, too, the power struggles come to a dramatic head ... In his new epoch-making novel Helden (Heroes), a congenial sequel to the world bestseller "Death and the Devil", Frank Schätzing paints a picture of a Western society in upheaval. Together with Katty Salié, he talks about the heroes of his novel, the eternal tension between power and morality and writing about historical material.