Der Medizinstudent Simon Benz wird durch das Schreiben des Rechtsanwalts Thaker darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass auf der Kanalinsel Jersey der Bruder seiner Mutter verstorben ist und er zum alleinigen Erbe auserkoren wurde, was seine Anwesenheit erforderlich macht.Nichts Weltbewegendes, wenn nicht die Umstände der damaligen Zeit dieses Unterfangen zu einem Abenteuer der besonderen Art hätte werden lassen. Seine jugendliche Euphorie wird durch die Ereignisse auf der Fahrt zu seinem Ziel und dann auf der Insel jäh zerstört. Er wird mit einer Macht konfrontiert, die er bis dahin nur vom...

Der Ganove Albert Remmler befindet sich inmitten seines bisher grössten Coups. Doch in seinem Nacken sitzt die russische Mafia und als alles aus dem Ruder läuft auch noch der Schweizer Kommissar Kessler und dessen französischer Kollege Lefèvre.Remmler sieht sich gezwungen, seinen Verfolgern durch ein taktisches Verwirrspiel immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein, sollte sein Meisterstück gelingen. Und so beginnt ein Spiel gegen die Zeit...

Der Ganove Albert Remmler befindet sich inmitten seines bisher grössten Coups. Doch in seinem Nacken sitzt die russische Mafia und als alles aus dem Ruder läuft auch noch der Schweizer Kommissar Kessler und dessen französischer Kollege Lefèvre.Remmler sieht sich gezwungen, seinen Verfolgern durch ein taktisches Verwirrspiel immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein, sollte sein Meisterstück gelingen. Und so beginnt ein Spiel gegen die Zeit...

Medical student Simon Benz has been alerted by a letter from the lawyer Thaker that his mother's brother has recently passed away on the Channel Island of Jersey and that he has been chosen as the sole heir, thereby demanding his presence.Nothing earth-shattering, if the prevailing circumstances at that time had not turned this venture into an extraordinary undertaking of a very special kind. His youthful euphoria is abruptly crushed by a series of tumultuous episodes on the journey to his destination and then further on the island itself. Suddenly, he is confronted with forces he had...

Medical student Simon Benz has been alerted by a letter from the lawyer Thaker that his mother's brother has recently passed away on the Channel Island of Jersey and that he has been chosen as the sole heir, thereby demanding his presence.Nothing earth-shattering, if the prevailing circumstances at that time had not turned this venture into an extraordinary undertaking of a very special kind. His youthful euphoria is abruptly crushed by a series of tumultuous episodes on the journey to his destination and then further on the island itself. Suddenly, he is confronted with forces he had...

A male corpse is found on the beach of a small Irish village. Imminent doom is associated with the name of the dead man. The Tin Man, as he was known in the village, becomes synonymous with an outlaw. After his mother's death, his son, Elliot O'Connor, who at the age of fourteen was sent to America to live with his uncle in foster care, returns home after twenty-five years as a pathologist for his father's funeral and is drawn into the maelstrom of events surrounding the crime against his father. The sad work of searching for traces of a crime on his father's dead body, without getting lost...

A male corpse is found on the beach of a small Irish village. Imminent doom is associated with the name of the dead man. The Tin Man, as he was known in the village, becomes synonymous with an outlaw. After his mother's death, his son, Elliot O'Connor, who at the age of fourteen was sent to America to live with his uncle in foster care, returns home after twenty-five years as a pathologist for his father's funeral and is drawn into the maelstrom of events surrounding the crime against his father. The sad work of searching for traces of a crime on his father's dead body, without getting lost...