Hammerleuthen Dam · Ore Mountains
Below the wall lie three villages.
From the blurb
Three days of steady rain.
Three days until the county election.
A wall that has held for ninety years.
And a signature no one wants to give.
About the book
Three days of steady rain. Three days until the county election. A wall that has held for ninety years. And a signature no one wants to give.
Katrin Wendt runs the Hammerleuthen Dam in the Ore Mountains. She measures in inches and in cubic feet per second, and when she is afraid, she goes out and measures. When three days of rain are forecast, she does what the rules require: she applies to draw down the lake while there is still time. Below the wall lie three villages.
The answer comes in the middle of the night, in writing and polite. The structural data on file give no cause. Only they are not Katrin's data. Someone has changed the readings in the record, and the trail does not lead where she is looking. Meanwhile the lake keeps rising, inch by inch, and everyone in the valley relies on the same sentence: She's always held.
A precise, harrowing disaster thriller about a no that nobody wanted and everybody signed. With a two-page site plan of the dam, an afterword on the technical background, and a glossary.
Every measurement with the time and initials. No page is ever removed from the book.
Formats & where to buy
Available as e-book and paperback. The links take you straight to the store.
English edition
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E-book
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Paperback
German edition
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