Most Popular Books by Frank Schatzing

Frank Schatzing''s The Swarm was an international science-fiction blockbuster, winner of the Koln Literatur Prize, the Corine Prize, and the German Science Fiction Prize. Limit is his most ambitious work to-date--a multilayered thriller that balances astonishing scientific, historical, and technical detail. Against this backdrop, Schatzing convincingly realizes a possible near future when humankind''s ingenuity may become the greatest risk to its continued existence. In 2025, entrepreneur Julian Orley opens the first-ever hotel on the moon. But Orley Enterprises deals in more than space tourism--it also operates the world''s only space elevator, which in addition to allowing the very wealthy to play tennis on the lunar surface connects Earth with the moon and enables the transportation of helium-3, the fuel of the future, back to the planet. Julian has invited twenty-one of the world''s richest and most powerful individuals to sample his brand-new lunar accommodation, hoping to secure the finances for a second elevator. On Earth, meanwhile, cybercop Owen Jericho is sent to Shanghai to find a young female hacker known as Yoyo, who''s been on the run since acquiring access to information that someone seems quite determined to keep quiet. As Jericho closes in on the girl and the conspiracy swirling around her, he finds mounting evidence that connects her to Julian Orley as well as to the entrepreneur''s many competitors and enemies. Soon, the detective realizes that the lunar junket to Orley''s hotel is in real and immediate danger. From the Hardcover edition.

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 families—a 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 "Jacob the Fox" has seen it all—and 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 who—and what—is he running from?

Mei 2025. Rechercheur Owen Jericho moet in Sjanghai op zoek naar de mooie, maar grillige dissidente Yoyo, die met geheime documenten op de vlucht is voor de Chinese Partij. Sinds de ontdekking van de maangrondstof helium-3 voeren de Chinezen en de Amerikanen namelijk een verbeten wedloop om de exploitatie van deze energiebron. Dat blijft niet zonder gevolgen. Owens speurtocht ontaardt in een wilde achtervolging dwars door de continenten naar Equatoriaal-Guinea, naar het hoofdkantoor van de gewiekste zakenman Julian Orley. Deze excentrieke miljardair organiseert een maanreis voor een gezelschap van steenrijke internationale beroemdheden. Al snel loopt die stunt uit op een gigantisch drama dat de hele aarde bedreigt. Want de maan geeft haar geheimen niet prijs zonder offers

The Swarm, which set off a frenzy in German bookstores, is the #1 international bestseller about an intelligent life force that takes over the oceans and exacts revenge on mankind.