Spy Thriller
The Future of Flight
A Novel of the Hindenburg's Last Voyage
by Philipp Hogrefe
May 1937 · Frankfurt – Lakehurst
804 feet long. No way off. No hiding place someone else doesn't already know.
From the blurb
Three nights over the Atlantic.
A ship whose ending everyone knows.
And a man who thinks he is the courier.
He is the package.
About the book
Three nights over the Atlantic. A ship whose ending everyone knows. And a man who thinks he is the courier. He is the package.
Robert Lenz calculates turbine blades to a hundredth of a millimeter. About everything else he has learned to keep quiet: the Party, his firm, the brother they came for in 1933. Now he wants only one thing. To step off in New York and never step back on.
What is meant to buy him a new life there, he carries in his jacket when he boards the Hindenburg in Frankfurt in May 1937. He thinks he knows who asked him to carry it. But no one aboard this ship is traveling by chance, and anyone who is kind to Lenz wants something from him. The largest airship in the world is 804 feet long, with no way off and no hiding place someone else doesn't already know. The closer the American coast comes, the smaller she gets.
A cool, precise spy thriller about guilt, escape, and what a man is worth when everyone only wants to know what he is carrying. Includes an afterword on the historical background and a glossary.
Matches and lighters, please. Returned on arrival.
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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